"Alan Parkington" <patriot@iheartaustralia.com.au> wrote in message
news:EZaUj.8344$ko5.4260@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> From
> http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...07/2237599.htm
>
> Telstra has criticised the former federal government over funding delays
> for pay phones in remote communities around the Northern Territory.
>
> A national newspaper has reported that a baby died last week after its
> family had to walk 10 kilometres from the remote Centralian community of
> Blackwater to Pupunya for medical treatment.
>
> The area general manager for Telstra Country Wide says the pay phone at
> the community was removed in 2004 after vandalism and funding for a
> replacement

That will teach em