Thank you, Paul, for an appreciated reply; however, the Gwydir is a State Highway and the dangerous condition that I mentioned has been reported numerous times (according to locals) but nowt is done about it, similarly, south of Glen Innes, on the New England Highway at Stonehenge, there is a long straight.
This straight has a dip in it that can effectively conceal a car, then follows a blind corner all of which is divided by an inviting broken centre line.

Hi Issy, I am surprised such conditions are allowed to exists on our "highways". a letter (E-mail) to the roads minister would not be out of place. I do sympathize with local shire councils and the roads they have to maintain, a job often beyond their capacity. I recall the March Road up near Orange, for 20 miles and for many years it was a nice tar sealed road, it turned into a goat track at the point where the two shires met. Wellington Shire never maintained their section, while Orange did, even tar sealing their bit, strange.

Paul,

One of the reasons for dirt roads is that they cost less to build; some years ago the State Government mandated that tar roads had to meet a new wider minimum width, the result was that some councils, faced with a staggering new cost, simply sent their graders out and put the rippers through their tar roads, turning them into black gravel roads.

Late in the 1990s or early 2000s, NSW ripped up the bitumen on the road between Woodenbong & Stanthorpe, as they reckoned they couldn't afford to maintain it. They claimed it was better to have a dirt road, as they could grade it a couple of times a year much more cheaply.

Obviously the NSW government wanted to spend the money on a roundabout or flyover in Sydney, rather than a road for people to get to town in wet weather. Welcome to the left green world.