Elderly woman rescued from flood ravaged Australian home
A rescue team has filmed the moment they found an elderly woman stranded in her flooded home in Taree.
The Australian prime minister, Antony Albanese has described the floods affecting New South Wales as horrific.
Tens of thousands of people remain cut off after floods engulfed parts of the Taree region which is a few hundred kilometres north of Sydney.
Four people are now known to have died as the area suffered half a year's worth of rain in just three days.
The local fire chief said six hundred people had been rescued; many clambered on to the roofs of houses and cars to be winched to safety.
The record rainfall has been declared a natural disaster.
