On alert: Parts of southwest Sydney preparing to evacuate

Email A fourth person has died, and another is missing as northern NSW continues is battered by heavy rain and flooding. Meanwhile some Sydney suburbs are bracing for low-level flooding this evening. See the latest in our live blog.

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