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February 10th, 2015 
David Schulberg
According to Vice News agency on Tuesday, the remote communities, located across the northern tip of Australia and the Kimberley in the country’s northwest, will be deprived of essential services with the decision by the federal government.
Meanwhile, Western Australia (WA) state government has said it cannot afford to cover the costs either, estimating that at least some of the 274 communities in the state – perhaps as many as 200 – will have to close.
WA Premier Colin Barnett has, however, announced that cutting water and electricity supplies does not mean the communities will have to close down.
Barnett said “There is nothing to stop people going on to land.”
Meanwhile, the Amnesty International’s Australia advisor Rodney Dillon has voiced the organization’s concern over the decision, saying the communities have not been informed and the decision was made by “a couple of blokes with a coffee in Perth”
Dillon said “This is their homeland. It’s where they belong. It’s where they are proud. They are the keepers of the land. Some might stay and die on the land. The older individuals won’t manage it, it might kill them.”
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Source Article from http://english.irib.ir/news/world/asia/item/204490-australia-discontinues-water,-electricity-services-for-aboriginals
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