'Our defence has gone': Byron Bay reels as storm surge devastates Australia's famous beaches

The white sands of Main and Clarkes beaches have been washed away after suffering slow erosion over a year In the shallows at Byron Bay, a man wanders the beach with a metal detector looking for once-buried treasure.A few days since the ocean carved away most of the white sand, the shoreline bears a handful of markers that show the scale of the storm's erosion damage. Continue reading...