‘Fundamentally failed’: Independent review slams Woolworths over Darwin Dan Murphy’s store

Retail giant Woolworths comprehensively failed to consider the significant negative effects of its now-axed Darwin Dan Murphy’s store would have had on the city’s Aboriginal community and put commercial benefits above all other considerations, an independent report has found.

Woolworths CEO Brad Banducci and chairman Gordon Cairns have apologised for the company’s failings when planning to build the Dan Murphy’s site.

“[Woolworths] failed to give sufficient reflective consideration to First Nations people of Darwin and the Northern Territory with respect to their socio-economic status, their histories and their struggles to overcome disempowerment and disadvantage,” the report reads. “More fundamentally, it failed to sufficiently understand that many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples view alcohol as nothing short of a demon that leaves destruction in its wake.”

domp Any minute now there will be an outcry about not having a liquor store in the area as discrimination.

domp A company that places poker machines in supermarkets does not care one iota

domp It's not like they built it outside the gates of a remote dry community. It's in suburban Darwin. People shouldn't be allowed to stop others buying a wide selection of wine cheaply just because some people are alcoholics. Maybe they should move to a dry community?

domp Just out of curiosity, who did this report? Because the same argument can be made for EVERY licensed premises in Australia!? Alcohol can have negative effects on some members of the community, be they aboriginal or not. Alcoholism is not racist? Why would you be?

domp Oh please. woolworths is the largest owner of parasitic poker machines in Oz, as if they ever cared about any community. They make the volunteers in the community work harder by spreading the damage all over Australia.

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