While infection levels are beginning to drop in most of the country, Omicron is now ripping through remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory at an alarming rate, with hospitalisations now the highest per capita in the country. 

Severe overcrowding is driving the spread, with dozens of people often forced to isolate together in derelict housing, while vaccination rates remain among the lowest in the country. 

Today, the ABC's Indigenous Affairs Editor, Bridget Brennan, on a crisis politicians foresaw but failed to prevent. 

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Bridget Brennan, ABC Indigenous Affairs Editor