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Back Roads: Pine Creek

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Back Roads

Pine Creek

ABC | January 15, 2018

Indigenous Australians

Intercultural understanding

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Heather travels to Pine Creek, a pioneering outback town in the Northern Territory. On the fringes of Kakadu National Park, Pine Creek has long been a boom-or-bust mining area, but the town now finds itself at a crossroads.

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Heather travels to Pine Creek, a pioneering outback town in the Northern Territory. On the fringes of Kakadu National Park, Pine Creek has long been a boom-or-bust mining area, but the town now finds itself at a crossroads.

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