Call for coastal shipping to aid flood-stricken Kimberley

“I’M calling on Minister King to urgently lodge a Section 11 exemption of the Coastal Trading Act 2012 to allow international carriers, who are at the ready, to bring in the supplies that this community [in the east Kimberley] is in desperate need of right now,” Senator Bridget McKenzie said in a speech to the Senate on Wednesday (8 March). She said a crisis was unfolding in the area as the region is left “struggling and stranded” after floods severed the main route into the area.