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Residents living in defective Palmerston houses that wouldn't withstand a cyclone accuse NT government of putting lives at risk

Brie Culph is angry she wasn't warned about defects in her house as she paid stamp duty and commissioned mandatory inspections. (ABC News Jane Bardon)

Recruitment consultant Brie Culph works from home while her partner serves away in the navy. 

But she takes no comfort from the surroundings of her home in Bellamack, a suburb in the Northern Territory satellite city of Palmerston, which she bought with a $430,000 mortgage last May.

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