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Outback Queensland towns prepare to be cut off for weeks as floodwaters approach

Roxborough Downs is an island surrounded by floodwaters. (Supplied: McMillan Pastoral Company)

Residents in the outback Queensland town of Bedourie have begun preparations for a weeks-long isolation, as floodwaters from the far north-west move slowly south. 

Graziers along the Georgina River, which winds its way along the border of Queensland and the Northern Territory, have been moving cattle to higher ground and building flood levees as the floodwaters move downstream. 

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