Underground home owners left in limbo in White Cliffs in face of successful native title claim

By Isobel Cootes, Charli Shield
Updated January 17 2017 - 6:08pm, first published 6:00pm
White Cliffs local Enid Black inside her three-bedroom dugout. Photo: Grant Turner / Mediakoo.com
White Cliffs local Enid Black inside her three-bedroom dugout. Photo: Grant Turner / Mediakoo.com
With all the modern conveniences, this dugout home is ready to move into. Photo: Grant Turner/Mediakoo.com
With all the modern conveniences, this dugout home is ready to move into. Photo: Grant Turner/Mediakoo.com
Enid Black and neighbour Mal Burns outside their dugou homet, a former 1900s opal mine. Photo: Grant Turner / Mediakoo.com
Enid Black and neighbour Mal Burns outside their dugou homet, a former 1900s opal mine. Photo: Grant Turner / Mediakoo.com

Residents of White Cliffs in northwestern New South Wales have been left in limbo after being told leases on their underground homes would be terminated, rendering the properties worthless in the face of a successful native title claim.

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