A plan to permanently close a tiny crime-ridden town in outback Australia is facing a backlash from its 30-odd residents who say it is “the last frontier” and offers a peaceful escape from the country’s big cities.
The state government of South Australia announced earlier this year it would close Mintabie, an opal-mining town about 700 miles from the city of Adelaide, saying the town was enabling bootlegging of alcohol and trafficking of drugs into remote Aboriginal communities.
But many of the town’s residents say they want to stay, despite – or perhaps because of – its isolation and limited phone and internet access. The town can only be reached via a 20-mile dirt road that connects it to…
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