00:02The husk of Desmond Longmare's car, which still reeks of burning plastic and rubber.
00:08They came running this way. They had a petrol too, petrol, on a bottle, coke bottle, and
00:14then they sprinkled that one and then they set the fire to it. They started to smash
00:22this one and put the fuel from here, this area. Oh my God, can't tell. It's like a bonfire.
00:28He's one of many in Wadiya caught up in rolling violence between family groups, which has
00:34reignited in recent weeks.
00:36Bowling arrows and all that machete, metal steel and everything, windows, lubers, all those
00:43lubers over there. They take it out and then they use that one as a weapon.
00:49The rolling conflict putting pressure on local police.
00:53I worry when we have these disturbances that people are going to get hurt. They like to
00:58take my hat off to them because they turn up, they put themselves in those situations, which
01:04a lot of people wouldn't.
01:06The recent fighting has prompted the Northern Territory's remote driver training program
01:10to cancel their planned visit to Wadiya, making life difficult for young learners trying to
01:16get their licence.
01:17When the police pull them up and they ask for their licence or insurance or something like
01:22that, and people that don't have a licence.
01:26Wadiya is home to several thousand people from dozens of clan groups, grouped together on
01:31Kartu-Diminan land, a legacy of the mission days.
01:37They gather for ceremonies and speak a common language. But the proximity and overcrowding can
01:44bring tension too. Traditional owner Margaret Purgett is at pains to say that all clans are welcome.
01:50I stand there before them and tell them to come together, to apologise. This is our home.
01:59What is our home?
02:01The recent fighting though has reinvigorated talk about investing in homelands, the small
02:07outstations that surround the main town, to give people space and somewhere to go when
02:13things get heated.
02:14We need government support. We really want to move back to our homeland where we feel home.
02:20And spiritual.
02:22The local Aboriginal corporation is working on a proposal for an independent school that
02:27could service the homelands.
02:29They're there with their families on country, so there's less, I guess, friction. It doesn't
02:33mean there isn't friction, but there's less friction than having to live with a group of
02:36people that you may not be comfortable with, like they're doing whatever.
02:39Margaret Purgett says she'd like politicians to spend more time in her community, talking to
02:45locals about solutions.
02:46And they can see themselves what's happening out here.
02:50A call for deeper investigation into the real drivers of violence.
02:55Because of the response.
02:55Let's do this.
