The floods of early 2023 in Western Australia and the Northern Territory exposed Australia's road network and food supply chains, with the heavy water across the Kimberley region shutting down parts of the critical Great Northern Highway. What more can be done in Australian manufacturing to ensure food security as we know it? Elizabeth Jackson, Associate Professor at the School of Management and Marketing at Curtin University, paints a picture of the current food supply chains, and investigates how prone they are to natural disasters.