Devastating flood emergency gripping Western Australia, says PM

• Australian PM Anthony Albanese says his government is ready to assist.
• The region is three times the size of the United Kingdom.
• Ellie, severe weather system and former tropical cyclone that dumped a lot of rain.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese stated that his country was prepared to offer people of Western Australia state whatever assistance they required as unprecedented flooding cut off remote villages there.

Ellie, a severe weather system and former tropical cyclone that dumped a lot of rain on the vast Kimberley this week, is blamed for the catastrophe in the region, which is approximately three times the size of the United Kingdom.

Fitzroy Crossing, a town of around 1,300 people, was among the hardest-hit areas. Due to the flooding, which authorities have described as the worst in the state’s history, supplies were being airlifted into the town.

With regard to the problem in the sparsely populated region, which also contains the tourist destination of Broome, Albanese claimed that his Labor government was “working constructively” with the Western Australian government.

“These floods are having a devastating impact, many of these communities … are communities that do it tough, and the resources simply aren’t there on the ground,” Albanese told reporters in the city of Geelong, in Victoria state. “My government stands ready to provide whatever support is requested.”

Emergency officials in Western Australia reported that Australian Defense Force aircraft were being employed to aid flood-affected areas and that Chinook helicopters were headed that way to assist in relocating affected citizens.

The nation’s weather forecaster said severe weather was no longer occurring in the state but that “the situation will continue to be monitored and further warnings will be issued if necessary.”

Following two years of severe floods in Australia’s east brought on by a multi-year La Nina weather pattern, which is normally associated with greater rainfall, the emergency in the country’s far north-west. Since last year, there have been four significant flood emergencies in some areas.

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