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Voting opens in remote communities

Voting has opened in some of the remotest communities in Australia.

The APY Lands is one of the most remote regions in Australia
The APY Lands is one of the most remote regions in Australia Source: Karen Ashford

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Voting has opened in some of the remotest communities in Australia.

Mobile polling booths are visiting Aboriginal communities in the APY lands in the far north west of South  Australia, as well Oak Valley on the Maralinga Tjarutja Lands and Yalata on the state's west coast.

Electoral Commission officials are providing information in local languages to assist about 3,000 Indigenous residents to cast their votes up until Friday this week.

The mobile booths operate before election day because of the time needed to travel between 13 APY communities located across more than 100,000 square kilometres of land.


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