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"If people are really, really hungry, and theres no food. You know what quenches food craving? Chewing tobacco and smoking.”

Remote general store managers are stretched out, stressed and under-resourced. As a result, communities are hungry, traumatised and cut-off.

General stores in remote communities control the quality, quantity and cost of products, and so wield a lot of power over Indigenous lives.

When systems fail in a remote general store, the closest fix is 452km away. It’s usually on the store manager to come up with a solution.

Former Liberal now independent Senator David Van also used terms such as babe, hon and darling when chatting with women.

Outback Stores, a not-for-profit organisation, operates retail stores in remote Indigenous communities across Australia's outback. A Filipino store manager in the Northern Territory shares how she embraced the Aboriginal community of Ali Curung ensuring access to affordable and nutritious food.

Health experts have called for an end to lower price incentives in the marketing of soft drinks to Indigenous communities without drinkable tap water.

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An Aboriginal health researcher who wants to contribute to the wellbeing of his people is one of the Charles Darwin University (CDU) students and...