As the wild weather eases in Australia's north, unprecedented damage has shown just how easily our remote road network can fail.
Extraordinary pictures show the bridge connecting Fitzroy Crossing to the rest of Western Australia completely severed, after torrential rains opened an inland sea in the Kimberley.
Meanwhile, remote communities in central Australia could be cut off for weeks after ex-Tropical Cyclone Ellie's U-turn back into the NT.
