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Timber Creek residents to begin returning home as 'dozens' of community members donate essential supplies

Residents of a flood-affected township in the Northern Territory have begun to return home more than a week after being evacuated, with the help of "dozens" of donations of much-needed supplies. 

A number of Aboriginal communities surrounding the township of Timber Creek, near the West Australian border, had been evacuated in the days before Christmas after it was hit by a deluge from ex-Tropical Cyclone Ellie.

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