Daniel James
speaker
3,372 appearances
84 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 6d ago
Daniel James’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But this hides the fact that more Aboriginal people are being sentenced to prison than ever before.
There's been a 23% increase in Indigenous incarceration in the past five years.
Children aged between 14 and 17 are incarcerated at a higher rate in the Northern Territory than anywhere else in the country.
Inside the only shopping centre, the bottle shops are once again open.
And there are lines out the front, with police checking IDs before people enter.
There are two lines, with one copper each assigned to check where people live, to make sure they don't live somewhere where alcohol is forbidden.
Middle-aged white people are waved through.
see, Ant?
There are plenty of blackfellas on the street, and they outnumber the whitefellas.
They're usually in groups, just yarning up.
It's on these streets you'll hear some of the oldest languages known to humanity.
The true languages of the continent.
Yet they're more foreign to us than Italian or French, or even millennial.
The wonder of that is really something for an outsider.
But for Damien and Bison, their focus is on the problems here and now.
I sensed that, so I asked them about it.
When did that sort of violence and running amok sort of start, do you think?
This is something I heard again and again as I spoke to locals in Alice Springs.
They still remember the army rolling into town, the announcements over town camp PAs warning people to stay in their homes.
They tell me about the confusion, the terror, about how the blunt force of the intervention affected every part of their lives and how they're still dealing with the consequences all these years later.
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