One year on: Bagot Community residents share their stories

One year on: Bagot Community residents share their stories - Darwin Dan Murphy’s objection

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(Note: This video discusses alcohol use, loss, trauma, violence, murder, death and contains references to deceased people.)
Exactly a year ago, communities and health groups in the Northern Territory (NT) successfully stopped Woolworths from building an alcohol megastore in Darwin, at the doorstep of dry Aboriginal communities, after a five-year-long battle.
In this video members of the local Bagot Community, including President of the Bagot Community Advisory Group, Aunty Helen Fejo-Frith, share their stories and personal experiences with alcohol in the community.
Together we continued fighting, even when the odds were against us. This was a huge community victory after years of poor consultation and lack of empathy for community concerns from one of the nation’s biggest corporations.
Read more about this community victory: fare.org.au/da...

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@JillSmith-s1f 6 ай бұрын

Sending love to all you lovely people

@dm3373 4 ай бұрын

Self determination. Don’t have to buy and drink, it’s a choice, make it the right one 🤷‍♂️

@deborahdicembre9579 2 жыл бұрын

So happy about this victory. Let's semd a message that this can be replicated in other black and white communities. Give our children safety and a future

@khabasahure9840 5 ай бұрын

GREAT

@mrman1536 6 ай бұрын

Ban alcohol is the only way.

@MrOx85 Жыл бұрын

This fixes nothing, alcohol is available 10am to 10pm we have plenty of other grog shops.Every Woolworths, Coles every pub and so on.

@rogerthat487 3 ай бұрын

An Australia wide if not world wide problem, not solely a racial one

@kevincage1641 2 ай бұрын

The racial problem supersedes the worldwide issue. If you don’t agree, you are Caucasian and have never experienced it.

@kaleheidke5232 7 ай бұрын

Truth worriors...!

@ROGERTULL 27 күн бұрын

I LIVED IN DARWIN IN THE LATE 70'S, I SPENT TIME IN THE COMMUNITY WHEN AUNTY RAN THE FOOTBALL TEAM,

@tclark2311 7 ай бұрын

I’m finished helpings any off u I’m sorry do something for your selves ! were sick off being blamed at every turn!

@jeanettecoleman-mz7ie 2 ай бұрын

Yep I AGREE, twenty yrs ago going through Alice Springs, all lined up, 10 am at the bottle shop, too bad if kids have no food, Still the same, now having lockdowns😂, bandaid approach, WHATS THAT GOING TO DO. Never going to change, yet I saw on another video, where the Women blaming alcohol on the deaths of relatives, WHO TOOK THE DRINK, consumed ALL, LOOKING FOR MORE THE NEXT DAY, no OFF switch, like ANTS after Honey, they have intelligence, no one telling anyone to consume alcohol🤬

@OziBlokeTimG Ай бұрын

I can tell everyone, alcohol, smoke and drugs is just poison. Gardening is a great start. We must engineer activity back into life everywhere.

@jamesmorgan3032 Жыл бұрын

Marginalization of members of society because of cultural and ethnic differences leads to addiction, lack of opportunity and despair. It is the slow but legal tool to achieve genocide and is unconscionable.

@renacleerican7824 2 ай бұрын

Apparently the exact same is happening to the First Nations of North America, the Natives of Central and South America. It is obviously an old Westerners's strategy of genocide. Our europeans governments do exactly the same to the unwanted casts of the society. The most cynical is that alcohol and alcoholism bring billions to these evil oligarchic entities.

@ShoichingShoiching-n7f 28 күн бұрын

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

@jessicahijarunguru4117 2 ай бұрын

Do they have a language?

@Wayne-fn1sw 2 ай бұрын

Yes

@levinajohnston7269 4 ай бұрын

One side store

@Whatever_Happy_People 22 күн бұрын

Love and Peace to you all. I'M SORRY FOR WHAT THE WHITE MAN HAS DONE TO YOU BEAUTIFUL MEN AND WOMEN. ❤❤❤❤❤

@freewheeler8924 Ай бұрын

All around the world, there are non-European peoples who lack the gene to quickly metabolise alcohol. They end suffering the worst from drunkenness, alcoholism and its effects. So it's not a question of self-determination or equal rights or access - alcohol is simply way more dangerous for such peoples because they lack the resistance to it that most people of European descent have.

@devd1548 Ай бұрын

Real owner of Australian soil..

@reyeshdang6131 11 ай бұрын

Yeah the ABOS 🎉🎉🎉

@IsaacIdai 9 ай бұрын

Really!!

@IsaacIdai 9 ай бұрын

What do you mean!

@sabinaholmes1402 3 ай бұрын

Okay before you calling us abos where did you come from to say abos to us the first Australian people your a migrant from your poor country

@straydog1996 28 күн бұрын

You just can't say it,, rescind alcohol rites,, just DO IT

@debraimahupuku6798 7 ай бұрын

The old saying: you can't eat money. Hope these people get their families lives on track. You are all awesome ❤

@jacobzaranyika9334 Жыл бұрын

Turn the pain into purpose...

@nobodyreally0162 Жыл бұрын

Change has to come from inside the community.. they need to be creative and find ways to improve their live and community.. plus we are missing all the Men and Women who have been through Lore. Massive loss of Culture..

@brettcarson1061 4 ай бұрын

Outstanding.

@jeanettecoleman-mz7ie 2 ай бұрын

Lives without a purpose, lives with a purpose use alcohol, I have the occasional glass of wine! Its up to the individual to use alcohol responsibly OR NOT. Alice springs, years ago, trying to curb sales of alcohol, lock downs, it doesn't work, like ants attracted to honey, while the honey is there the ants will be also. Dry communities, I dont know the success rate, but then you have those who will sneak alcohol into a dry communities. When I worked in nth s aust, small town, pension day there would be cattle trucks bring in blackfellas from outlying areas, the next day there'd be people sleeping it off, one fella had a tomahawk embedded in his skull, still alive, whitemans " rot gut" is not meant for the first Australians, they were happier in their native, natural element, such creative, knowledgeable people. As an Australian country person, my words, to any who may think im being racist, you have zero idea, this is real, & true!

@alejandrojr.albarracin4432 4 ай бұрын

Yes ofcourse ,money is currency thats important to pay bills and medicine 💊💉??

@peppermint9798 2 күн бұрын

Everyone has a choice

@calanmacleod3948 Ай бұрын

As someone who worked on Aboriginal missions and reserves I would fully back what these women are saying. The communities were great places to be, but when the grog arrived, sadly community cohesion fell apart.