Evacuees from flooded remote Indigenous areas in NT housed in compound likened to ‘a prison camp’
Residents must sign in and out at a security gate, and vehicles and bags are routinely searched
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The NT government moved families from an evacuation shelter in Darwin to student accommodation and temporary dongas at the Batchelor Institute after the scale of flooding became clear. Photograph: (A)manda Parkinson/The GuardianView image in fullscreenThe NT government moved families from an evacuation shelter in Darwin to student accommodation and temporary dongas at the Batchelor Institute after the scale of flooding became clear. Photograph: (A)manda Parkinson/The GuardianIndigenous AustraliansEvacuees from flooded remote Indigenous areas in NT housed in compound likened to ‘a prison camp’Residents must sign in and out at a security gate, and vehicles and bags are routinely searched Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Reporting and photography by (A)manda…
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