Floodwaters inundate Rockhampton

Rising floodwaters spread through the low-lying suburb of Depot Hill in Rockhampton, eastern Queensland Photograph: MECHIELSEN LYNDON/AFP/Getty Images A snake crosses the Capricorn highway Photograph: Daniel Munoz/Reuters Resident Mark Prosser makes his way through flooded North Rockhampton. Police have ordered residents to leave their homes as electricity is switched off in low-lying areas Photograph: Kelly Watt/EPA The airport runway at Rockhampton Photograph: MECHIELSEN LYNDON/AFP/Getty Images An emergency personnel boat in Rockhampton Photograph: Daniel Munoz/Reuters Rockhampton, which has 75,000 people, will be supplied with food and medicine by military helicopters and by barge Photograph: KELLY WATT/EPA A brown snake sits on the fence during flooding in Rockhampton Photograph: Newspix/Rex Features Crops inundated by the rising floodwaters west of Rockhampton Photograph: Janie Barrett/EPA Mining equipment and heavy trucks under water in Rockhampton Photograph: Newspix/Rex Features A rescue boat passes a Welcome to Rockhampton sign on the flooded Bruce highway after the Fitzroy river broke its banks and inundated much of Rockhampton Photograph: Torsten Blackwood/AFP/Getty Images The Welcome to Rockhampton sign surrounded by floodwaters Photograph: Newspix/Rex Features Meat ants swarm on a post just above the floodwaters in Rockhampton Photograph: Lyndon Mechielsen/Newspix/Rex Features A vehicle drives down the flooded runway at Rockhampton airport Photograph: Torsten Blackwood/AFP/Getty Images Cattle crowd on to the highest spot they could find near Rockhampton Photograph: Lyndon Mechielsen/Newspix/Rex Features Aerial view of flooded areas of Rockhampton, including its main airport runway Photograph: Lyndon Mechielsen/Newspix/Rex Features