The NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet and a whole host of state government ministers have touched down in flood-ravaged Eugowra in NSW's Central West to a less than welcome reception.
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Eugowra residents have been left to clean-up amid the devastation of loss of life and a crumbling township.
Peter Jones, a Eugowra resident and former police officer, approached Premier Dominic Perrottet during his visit to the local SES on Friday.
Mr Jones grew emotional as he said help had not come quickly enough.
"A tsunami - that's exactly what it was," Mr Jones said angrily.
"It's taken us five days to get absolutely nowhere."
Mr Jones said Eugowra residents were let down by communications outages and a lack of emergency resources, saying he was not criticising the town's efforts.
"People here were left to their own devices," he said.
"We've had no food, no clothing, no one telling us what is going to happen next."
Mr Jones said evacuees sent to Orange would return to Eugowra with nowhere to live.
"If you're still in parliament next year, I want a personal date with you in your office or my house ... I've had a gutful," he said
Mr Perrottet said the government had been doing what it could and would follow up on his concerns.
"That's not good enough. That's not an answer," Mr Jones responded.
"Whatever we can do to make sure it's fixed," Mr Perrottet said.
"You've had enough time," Mr Jones said.
The NSW government on Friday increased payments for affected farmers and said caravans would soon be brought in to re-home the town's evacuees.
"We will ... put people back on their home blocks, even if their home is not habitable, in a caravan if they so choose," Emergency Services Minister Steph Cooke told reporters in Eugowra.
It comes after acting Prime Minister Richard Marles toured the devastation in the Cabonne Shire village earlier this week.
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Member for Orange, Phil Donato, whose electorate incorporates the Eugowra area, said the state government's key stakeholders were in the area on Friday in a bid to "hopefully get some funding and resources directed where they're needed".
Deputy Premier and leader of the NSW Nationals Paul Toole was there, as was Regional Roads minister Sam Farraway, emergency services minister Steph Cooke, Cabonne Shire mayor Kevin Beatty and Nationals MLC Scott Barrett.
The village was effectively wiped out by an 'inland tsunami' five days ago, with floods sweeping through Eugowra in the early hours of Monday morning.
- with Australian Associated Press