NT government’s bid to not supply safe drinking water to Indigenous communities is ‘shocking’, lawyer says
Authorities accused of ‘wasting time in court’ rather than working to fix the problem in towns across the Northern Territory
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Lawyers for Aboriginal residents of a remote town in the Northern Territory say it is “shocking and disappointing” that the NT government is trying to overturn a landmark court ruling which found it was legally required to provide them safe drinking water.
The challenge is the latest development in a five-year legal stoush between the NT government and residents of Laramba, an Aboriginal community 205km north-west of Alice Springs, who took the government to court over elevated levels of uranium in their drinking water.
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