Homeless shelter shuts, residents sent to outback town

Key points

• Dozens of vulnerable adults and children are being bussed 100km from Darwin to the outback town of Batchelor after the YiSSA short-stay centre closed on Northern Territory government orders. Residents, many of them Aboriginal, include domestic violence survivors and people needing kidney dialysis.
• Resident Tilathia Gore said she had no choice but to go. Batchelor residents say their community lacks the services to cope.
• The Chief Minister defends the move, while the Opposition calls for it to be abandoned.