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Behind the photo that captured Wilcannia's COVID-19 plight

Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:12:18
Publish Date: 2021-09-06 03:37:56
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A cavalcade of motorhomes has arrived in the far-western NSW town of Wilcannia, where about one in seven of the population has tested positive for COVID-19.

As of Sunday, 98 people in the town of 745 people had contracted the virus.

Last week, Indigenous photographer Rhett Wyman’s photo of Catherine Bugmy being forced to wash her clothes in the river made the front page. Today on Please Explain, photographer Nick Moir joins Bianca Hall to discuss what’s happening in Wilcannia and how that front-page photograph came about.

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