The proposed liquor outlet would have been in close proximity to three Indigenous dry communities.
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Controversial plans to build a Dan Murphy’s megastore near Darwin Airport have been scrapped, parent company Woolworths Group announced today.
Indigenous groups have been protesting against the plans for nearly six years. Today’s win came after Woolies’ Endeavour Group was found by an independent panel to have not consulted stakeholders sufficiently enough.
“The Gilbert Review has made it clear that we did not do enough in this community to live up to the best practice engagement to which we hold ourselves accountable,” Woolworths Group Chairman, Gordon Cairns said in a statement.