Christmas Island has been in the media spotlight recently because of the plight of a Sri Lankan Tamil family and their efforts to get out of immigration detention.

But the remote Indian Ocean territory also faces some fundamental challenges of its own.

Peter McCutcheon reports from Christmas Island.

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