The land the NDIS forgot: the remote Indigenous communities losing the postcode lottery

More than half of Northern Territory participants in the disability scheme are Indigenous – and for those who live on country, isolation, culture and environment are compounded by bureaucratic hurdles

Djayak Munungurr wheels his brother Rex five metres from their front door to the shade of a poinciana tree overlooking the beach.

It’s 11am, about 30C. Except for the trilling of birds and yipping of camp dogs, it’s unusually silent – most of the 40 people who live here in the East Arnhem Land community of Garrthalala have made the bone-rattling 120km journey to Yirrkala for the footy finals.

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