{"id":872242,"date":"2026-08-29T04:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T04:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/872242\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T04:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T04:12:10","slug":"nepal-floods-live-updates-death-toll-rises-to-579-australians-from-sydney-melbourne-remain-missing-china-nepal-resume-rescues-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/872242\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal floods live updates: Death toll rises to 579; Australians from Sydney, Melbourne remain missing; China, Nepal resume rescues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Immigration Minister Matt Thistlethwaite has described the Nepalese and Tibetan communities as desperate for news after holding two online forums yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, we\u2019re working with people who are in the region, the Australians that we know, the roads are cut off, about 10,000 homes have been destroyed,\u201d he told the ABC\u2019s News Breakfast program.<\/p>\n<p>He said there were no telecommunications infrastructure to the region and power\u2019s been cut off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also attended a vigil last night, with the Nepalese community in Strathfield, and obviously, there was quite a bit of despair and anxiety, in that community, but we\u2019re doing our best to support the Tibetan and Nepalese communities here in Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He confirmed that Nepalese authorities have requested support from Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd overnight we\u2019ve sent eight officials, four crisis response team members and four consular members to the region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said they were trained in management of rescue and recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Assistant Immigration Minister Matt Thistlethwaite has described the Nepalese and Tibetan communities as desperate for news after holding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-872242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}