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Earlier this year the biggest flood in recorded history hit Lismore and its surrounding region. Our visual stories team and senior news reporters pieced together the events leading up to the disaster, ultimately revealing authority failures and missteps. Data journalist Pallavi Singhal explains how the ‘Lismore deadly deluge’ project was produced.