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Today's program is an encore episode; revisiting our December 2023 special on the Cocos Islands:
- It's not often the police greet you when you arrive at an Australian airport, but that's how it is on one of Australia's most remote territories - Cocos (Keeling) islands. The closest capital city is Jakarta in Indonesia, but yet the coral atoll is part of Australia. And it is Cocos location - close to the Sunda Strait - that makes it a strategic defence location for Australia. Law and order on the islands is looked after by the federal police. Today on Australia Wide we hear what locals love about living thousands of ks from anywhere and what troubles them about their future. We hear what locals love about living on this tiny coral atoll thousands of ks from anywhere and what troubles them about their future.
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