Rural and Remote Communities

Researchers take on waste management in remote NT

In remote Northern Territory, some piles of legacy waste have sat in sites for up to 100 years without pathways for removal. Researchers from Charles Darwin University have identified a range of possible solutions and developed frameworks for estimating waste removal costs. The outback-based study examined landfill sites for five communities in the West Arnhem …

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Drinking Water ‘Unsafe’ in Hundreds of Indigenous Communities.

A lack of infrastructure and testing has led to unsafe drinking water in over 500 Indigenous communities. The lack of safe drinking water now casts doubt on the government’s ability to supply drinking water to these through the future, as climate change is expected to ravage our most remote communities. Serious measures must be put …

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