(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/darwin