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Calls for aid in Doomadgee, residents face weeks trapped by floodwater with 'bare' supermarket shelves

All roads connecting the remote community of Doomadgee with the rest of Queensland are inundated with water. (Supplied: Queenland Police)

The only grocery store in a vulnerable Indigenous community is being criticised for exorbitant prices and limited supplies and residents — isolated by floodwaters since December — are calling for the government to step in.

Each Tuesday supplies are air-dropped into the remote town of Doomadgee, in Queensland's north-west, as it endures the wet season.

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