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Woolworths is being criticised for divisive tactics during its push to build a new liquor store in Darwin near dry Indigenous communities.
Aboriginal leaders and community leaders have spent five years campaigning to Stop the Build of the Dan Murphy s superstore.
Indigenous health expert John Paterson, the chief executive at the Northern Territory Medical Service Alliance, said the construction, led by Woolworth’s subsidiary Endeavour Group, has divided the community.
“To me personally, it reminds me of the colonisers of this country,” he told SBS News. It’s wedging Aboriginal groups against each other. This is the game that they’re good at, big corporates, they love it, and we’re calling on them to cease it.
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Woolworths has postponed the construction of a Dan Murphy’s bottle shop near three Aboriginal dry communities in the NT after years of activism and petitions from local elders.
The company has agreed to launch an independent panel review (IPR) focusing on community concerns, and has promised that construction won’t begin until that the review is completed in April 2021.
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With just days before an NT Government bureaucrat hands down a decision on Woolworths drawn-out bid to build a Dan Murphy s superstore in Darwin, health advocates and community leaders have produced an online petition carrying 137,000 signatures opposing the proposed development.
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Aboriginal health organisations have renewed calls for Woolworths to ditch plans to open a new alcohol superstore in Darwin
Woolworths will find out by Sunday if it has been successful in its bid to build a new Dan Murphy s in Darwin