Calls for aid in Doomadgee, residents face weeks trapped by floodwater with 'bare' supermarket shelves

The only grocery store in a vulnerable Indigenous community is being criticised for exorbitant prices and limited supplies and residents — isolated by floodwaters since December — are calling for the government to step in. Key points: Local leaders are calling for more supplies to be air-dropped into Doomadgee The town's only grocery store, run by CEQ, is underprepared for the wet season, local leaders say Residents have been isolated since December and will be cut off for several more weeks Each Tuesday supplies are air-dropped into the remote town of Doomadgee, in Queensland's north-west, as it endures the wet season. "We have witnessed community members in Doomadgee buying more than they would normally need in a weekly shop, and ask that all community members consider each other when they are deciding on the quantity of items they are purchasing," Mr Dykes said in a statement. The department said the Doomadgee Aboriginal Shire Council was able to request an additional flight to resupply the store, which could be paid for under local disaster management arrangements.