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Utopia (United States) (AFP) - In a tiny Texas town called Utopia, a sign at the entrance to its only school warns that staffers are packing guns -- a measure designed to prevent shootings like the one that left 19 kids and two teachers dead down the road in Uvalde.

For 100 years the state was marketed to the world as an idyllic English farming utopia. But last year it produced a small fraction of Australian apples. So what now for an industry started by William Bligh and buffeted by the winds of change?

The chief executives of two outback Central Australian clinics say they are in an "absolutely dire" situation as Indigenous communities battle COVID-19 with dwindling supplies, skeleton staff, flooded roads and no phone service.

As remote NT communities plunge in and out of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions, advocates for Indigenous Territorians say it is becoming harder to keep up with changes to health advice.