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Politics
Lucinda Garbutt-Young

Concern for economic reality of Aboriginal camps

Kumanjayi Little Baby's death has renewed calls for better indigenous infrastructure. (Rhett Hammerton/AAP PHOTOS)

The economic conditions of run-down Indigenous camps where a little girl was abducted and later killed have come under fire in a parliamentary inquiry, more than a decade after changes were recommended.

On the outskirts of Alice Springs are 17 communities, known as town camps, populated by 1050 permanent residents across multi-generational Aboriginal families.

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