State Premier Visits Flooded Outback Australian Towns

A supplied image obtained on Jan. 6, 2023 shows an aerial view of flooding at Fitzroy crossing in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. A 50 km-wide inland sea is surging towards the Kimberley coast after the swollen Fitzroy River devastated the town of Fitzroy Crossing earlier in the week. AAP Image/Supplied by Western Australia Police Force

Communities in the Australian state of New South Wales’s far west are being warned they face “a long journey ahead” following expected record flood peaks.

Premier Dominic Perrottet visited Menindee, and Broken Hill on Saturday, lamenting the immense amount of water from the slow-moving disaster will take weeks to recede.