The 2022 floods destroyed the Shepparton Swans facilities; climate change; Victoria floods; natural disasters [Video]

Two years ago, the Shepparton Swans Football Netball Club’s clubrooms and facilities were destroyed by Victoria’s 2022 floods which, the club president says, left the community devastated.

After the Goulburn River rose above the levee banks for the first time in 50 years, the Swans’ ground and club infrastructure became submerged in water, leaving them facing the next two seasons without a home.

Club president Jarrod Sutherland said many players, particularly younger ones, asked him: “Would our club survive or was it going to fall under or go under?”

The AFL stepped in to help with temporary unisex change rooms, allowing the club – which has had Adelaide’s Josh Rachelle and Hawthorn’s Jarman Impey come through its ranks – to have its football and …