00:02After six weeks in evacuation accommodation, residents from NAUU have had enough.
00:07Every time you go out to go to do your own things, you'll probably just go to the store to
00:12go and get a bit of feed, sign out, sign back in.
00:17Your car gets searched, everybody gets told to get out of the car and they go through the car and
00:23your bag and your private stuff, which is not right.
00:26Fed up with rigorous security checks, James Parry says it amounts to racial profiling.
00:32If you walk into the store, you come back, the first thing they ever ask you, how many bees you
00:37had today?
00:38And you try and tell them, I've never been at the pub.
00:42And that's where the conflict gets flipped, this is where the argument starts.
00:46They're treating us like prisoners and it's terrible.
00:51And he's not the only one.
00:52That's invading our privacy and, you know, like, we're not doing anything wrong, not everyone drinks.
01:02While residents are searched and questioned at the gate before being let in, Aboriginal controlled organisations can't seem to get
01:09in at all.
01:09Three weeks ago, Aboriginal peak organisations sent this letter to the chief minister offering free assistance at the centre.
01:17It went unanswered.
01:18Since then, the government has arranged for university social work students to spend their practical placements there.
01:24Why get university students where they'll have problems, you know, understanding my people?
01:30You need to work with A-Point Group and us, the land councils.
01:34Instead, the Northern Land Council says it has repeatedly been denied entry to the site, despite pre-arranging visits.
01:41A claim backed by other Aboriginal organisations.
01:44I was asked if I was from the NLC and I said, no, I'm not.
01:47And I was allowed to go in and talk to the head coordinator today, Bridget.
01:51But apparently if you're the NLC, you need to give 24 hours notice before you can come down here.
01:58What's going on?
01:59Desperate for answers, for those desperate to go home.
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