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Tent camp under construction for remote Northern Territory flood evacuees in Yarralin

The tent accommodation will house flood-affected residents from Pigeon Hole. (Supplied: Walangeri Aboriginal Corporation)

A temporary camp is being assembled on the edge of the remote Northern Territory community of Yarralin ahead of the return of almost 150 flood evacuees whose homes remain uninhabitable.

The entire population of Pigeon Hole, a community that sits about 450 kilometres south-west of Katherine, was forced to evacuate to the NT government's former COVID isolation facility in Howard Springs in March following severe flooding.

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