NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet, Minister for Emergency Services Stephanie Cooke, the Bureau of Meteorology's Grahame Reader and NSW Police addressed flooding in northern parts of the state on Monday.<br /><br />Lismore in northern NSW is preparing for its worst flood on record, while Queensland mourns the loss of eight lives in floodwaters.<br /><br />The Bureau of Meteorology says rainfall of between 300 millimetres and 700mm has been recorded for the northern parts of the NSW Northern Rivers in the past 24 hours.<br /><br />The high rainfall has seen the Lismore levee overrun on early Monday morning and record flooding above the March 1976 peak and February 1954 levels is occurring in the town.<br /><br />The highest flood on record peaked at 12.46 metres in 1890.
