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Wet season delivers welcome rain for Barkly and Top End cattle stations, despite floods

The Victoria River has flooded over the Bradshaw Bridge and cut the Victoria Highway.

Many cattle stations across the Top End and Barkly regions are experiencing one of their best wet seasons in years, but the rain has come too heavy and fast for some. 

Heavy rainfall from a tropical low forced the evacuation of more than 700 people from the communities of Kalkarindji, Dagaragu and Pigeon Hole, south west of Katherine.

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