Reconciliation Australia won't be severing ties with Woolworths Group just yet, despite mounting pressure over a planned Dan Murphy's megastore to be located near three 'dry' Aboriginal communities.
Last week, an open letter was signed by more than 30 health and community organisations calling for the supermarket giant to have its Reconciliation Action Plan to be scrapped, similar to the course taken with Rio Tinto for the destruction of 46,000 year old rock formations at Juukan Gorge in the Pilbara.
The letter describes the construction of the Darwin alcohol mega-store, which will be located near three dry Aboriginal communities, as the "wilful and deliberate destruction of the health and lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples."