NT Government Drops $30.5M for Flood-Hit Roads

0:00The Northern Territory government just dropped a $30,500,000 package to fix up 10 major remote roads smashed by this. Wet seasons floods. Roads in the big rivers, top-end, and Barkley regions took the worst hit, with sections completely wiped out since flooding kicked off back in. November. This new cash, billed on the $100,000,000 flood recovery fund, announced by Chief Minister Leah Fanokiyaro back in March. Of the $30,500,000, 16 million heads to big rivers, fixes like the Rober Highway and Carpenteria Highway, 8 million for top-end spots such as Daily River Road and 6.5 million for Barkley roads, including Murray Downs. Floods cut off dozens of communities, forcing hundreds of folks to evacuate by air to places like Darwin. Floods spots like Palampa and Daily River saw families stuck in centers for over a month, dealing with inaccessible paths that barely look like roads, anymore.

1:01Now, residents from Palampa are heading home today, and the government's already rolling out $12.5 million from that bigger fund for flood. Barriers around Catherine, they're teaming up with the feds on the rest, aiming to spread help across the whole territory. With this push to restore basics first and bill tougher later, recovery's gaining steam, that's what those hard-hit communities need to get moving. Again, that's the story for today, Sydney News Today, driven by AI.