00:00 Yarlin's only store is almost out of food.
00:05 After six weeks of government subsidised flights, carrying just half the supplies the town needs.
00:11 This is what we've got left of fruit and veg.
00:15 And that's it, we've got nothing else out the back.
00:17 Pies, pasties, sausage fries.
00:20 We've got no fresh milk, no fresh juice.
00:22 No yoghurt for the children.
00:24 We ran out of red Monday.
00:27 We ran out Saturday.
00:28 Last Saturday.
00:29 Cyclone Megan cut off the community 600km south of Darwin in February, leaving damaged
00:36 roads impassable for food trucks, potentially for two more months.
00:41 I still can't get fishing hooks, fishing lines, got a couple of rods, but that's all I've
00:46 got.
00:47 Yeah, so people have gone out trying to catch their own food.
00:49 The shop's normally full storeroom is almost bare.
00:53 And because of the shortage on food, I'm unable to honour purchase orders of people like aged
00:58 care.
00:59 I've walked the whole town stops.
01:00 300 people are stuck in Yarrelin.
01:02 It's sort of like, really just, like cause a panic, you know, in the community.
01:09 Not much food to go around for all the families.
01:12 We're struggling here.
01:14 Underfed for months.
01:15 I have diabetes and now I've lost so much weight since the flood came through.
01:23 And worrying about their children.
01:25 Because of the nutrition that they don't have.
01:30 You know, feeling weak because there's nothing to eat.
01:33 And how long it's going to take for, I don't know, government to realise that.
01:40 They're asking whether other parts of Australia would accept this.
01:44 I don't think it would be allowed to happen in a non-Indigenous community.
01:48 The NT government says it's working with the store to establish a food security plan.
01:54 But Yarrelin leaders say many NT communities are left like this every wet.
01:59 I've just been astounded where every year there's no consistent emergency plan of right.
02:05 Look, we need help.
02:06 You know, Yarrelin does need help.
02:08 They're desperate appeals from people who've gone without for months.
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