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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Tory Shepherd and Australian Associated Press

Broome isolated by WA floods which could cut off remote Indigenous communities for weeks

Kangaroos
Kangaroos stranded in flood waters in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Photograph: Andrea Myers/PR IMAGE

Towns are cut off and residents have been evacuated in military planes during “the worst flooding Western Australia has ever seen”.

Authorities are working to let remote Aboriginal communities in the Kimberley region know of the danger, to relocate those who want to leave and deliver critical supplies. Derby, Broome and Noonkanbah have already been isolated.

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