00:01There's been extremely tense scenes outside the Northern Territory Parliament here today.
00:07This morning hundreds of protesters gathered in a park beside the NT Parliament and had
00:12speeches and made comments saying they were extremely offended by commentary from the
00:17new incoming administrator David Connolly on his social media mocking indigenous culture,
00:23domestic violence and the use of the rape drug Rehypnol.
00:27So then when the administrator's car arrived here we had the protesters surged down to
00:34the side of the park and were shouting shame, shame, not my administrator and police were
00:40basically keeping the protesters back from the edge of the cordon that they had set up.
00:45We had a situation where a Larrake elder Eric Feijo stepped onto the lawn in front of Parliament
00:52House which had been decided to be an exclusion area by the Speaker and the Northern Territory
00:58Police.
00:59Police immediately jumped on him and started to drag him away.
01:02The protesters responded to that by saying let him go, let him go and they were filming
01:08and searching towards police as he was dragged towards a police vehicle waiting at the side
01:14of the Parliament.
01:14Protesters also lay down in front of the vehicle to try and stop Mr Feijo being taken away by
01:21officers.
01:22Then the protest continued outside the Parliament and it was led at the front of the head by
01:27representatives of the community including the Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Malandiri
01:32McCarthy and her Northern Territory counterpart Maureen Scrimger.
01:37We had representatives from justice groups, Indigenous groups, women's groups, teachers and people
01:43from across the community really facing off with the police and shouting at the Parliament
01:48this is not our administrator, shame on you and criticising the Northern Territory Government
01:54for its pick in this case.
01:56Now David Connolly has apologised for his comments but that hasn't reduced the anger at the Parliament
02:03here.
02:04We also have had Indigenous representatives extremely critical of Eric Feijo being arrested for stepping
02:11onto what they felt really is his land and saying that it was his right to walk onto the Parliamentary
02:17lawns if he wished to.
02:18So very tense scenes here outside the Northern Territory Parliament.
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