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Keira Jenkins

Prepaid electricity leaving vulnerable people powerless

Vanessa Davis and Lauren Mellor know well the impacts of prepaid metering on remote residents. (Rhett Hammerton/AAP PHOTOS)

It's sweltering hot, pushing 40C, and without warning the power goes out. 

This is a regular occurrence for many of Australia's most remote residents across the Northern Territory, Western Australia, South Australia and Queensland, who have to prepay their electricity bill. 

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