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Cattle Australia calls for Govts to help producers in Gulf flooding

Flooding at Gallipoli Station in Northern Territory. Photo: Murray Brennan

CATTLE Australia is urging the Queensland and Federal governments to ensure producers hit by recent monsoonal flooding in the Gulf of Carpentaria get the support they need.

Heavy rain has hit the headwaters of the Leichardt River catchment early last week, sending record floods through the catchment, inundating homesteads and towns.

Cattle Australia Chair, David Foote said many affected producers would need all the help they can get to recover after the natural disaster.

“The scale of these floods is…

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