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Elderly living in overcrowded housing as Warmun aged care facility sits empty

The Warmun facility was built in 2014 but never opened. (Supplied: Peter Bennetts/Iredale Petersen Hook Architects)

After nearly a decade, the WA government says plans to open a long-awaited aged care facility in the remote Kimberley have been abandoned.

Opening to great fanfare in 2014, the multi-million dollar facility in Warmun was meant to provide on-country aged care for traditional owners in the East Kimberley.

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