Darwin Homeless Long Grass Aboriginal People in Northern Territory Parliament House Protest

On August 3rd 2001 homeless Aboriginal people in Darwin protested against proposed 'anti-social behaviour' laws outside the Northern Territory's Parliament House and the continued harassment of homeless people, known as 'long grassers', by the Darwin City Council. After speeches, including this impassioned rally cry by Dr Bill Day and Bob Bunba, the protestors occupied the foyer of the Darwin Civic Centre. The whole event was filmed by Robbie and Stuart Courtenay and later edited with Anda Fellows into a film titled 'We live in the long grass!'. This video clip is a short extract. Also featured is the late Gary Meyerhoff as coordinator of the rally. Bob Bunba died in Darwin on April 28, 2010.

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News & Politics

Tags:

• Longgrass
• People
• Darwin
• homeless
• Aborigines
• protest
• Northern
• Territory
• antisocial
• behaviour
• laws
• Bill
• Day
• Bob
• Bunba
• Gary
• Meyerhoff

[starterfire]

the dinosaurs were there first, no? There's plenty of grass for them to sleep in....also..I can't imagine anyone raping any of those "females"

[waniati]

1 get 26 drunks , 2 get 4 activists and greenies who eat their own ...then mix and hey presto one group of demonstrators legitomised by the semi educated black canon fodder the grens love to turn my family into ..Stuart Highway and his ilk should go south ..shame on them !

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[waniati]

If you dont want the wider society then raise your own revenue for a start , and develop an elite , tell the white and coconuts to piss off as they are only there to keep you in the grass , just get your ideas and go for it ..I used to be in the grass before I met Jesus ...

If you just want to be a drunk living on the taxpayer then sorry I wont support you in any way .......It seems as if stirrers like Stuart Highway , a kadibba (white man) get the drunks as they are the only ones who agree...

[ddchalmers]

So much 4 wyte man + da concept of 'property', whetha private or state-owned ('the Crown' in Auz, still...) + fencin it all off (theft of indigenous land)