Overview
- About 1,000 people are in emergency shelters as airlifts continue, with six planes and 18 helicopters moving residents from isolated areas.
- Patients and staff from Katherine Hospital have been relocated to Darwin as floodwaters disrupt critical services.
- Deputy incident controller Shaun Gill warned that crocodiles are "absolutely everywhere" and pleaded with residents not to enter fast-moving waters.
- The Bureau of Meteorology expects river levels, including along the Daly River, to remain elevated in the near term.
- Communities such as Palumpa, Beswick and Jilkminggan, along with settlements on the Daly River, have been evacuated after the river reached its highest level since 1998.