Take a Tropical Holiday to Darwin & Experience Rich Abo "Culture" ???

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http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2013/02/16/317677_ntnews.html

NT News journalist SARAH CRAWFORD spent a week staying at the notorious Kurringal Flats in Darwin's north - here is what she found.

TORRES Strait Islander Angie Mareko has a booming voice which echoes off the grimy walls of Kurringal Flats.

Right now her frightening bellow is directed at dopey-eyed Whitney Brinjen who has plonked herself down in the corridor with a dirty, big bong in her lap.

"F*** what are you doing? Take the c*** inside or I will tip it over the balcony," Angie, 38, roars.

Even in her supremely stoned state, Ms Brinjen does not need to be asked twice.

She scampers inside.


Lots of things are lobbed over the balconies of Kurringal Flats.

Lounge suites, mattresses, clothes and blades from pedestal fans.

Resident Fabian Yovich, 33, saw someone tip a heavy, analogue TV off the balcony of block four. It exploded on the steps near his front door.

"After that I stopped allowing my little nephews to stay over," he said.

Kurringal Flats are three, four-storey buildings of poverty, dysfunction and entrenched disadvantage dumped in the middle of one of Darwin's poshest suburbs, Fannie Bay.

Walking through the back gate past the no alcohol sign feels like you are stepping into an alternative universe.

The contrast between the leafy, picture-perfect townhouses of Fannie Bay and the grim, dirty white blocks of the Territory Housing complex is so extreme you feel disorientated.

Dozens of abandoned vehicles are in the car parks. Some vehicles have had their windows smashed or number plates removed. One car has had its engine and all the seats ripped out.

People sit on the stairs or in the corridors drinking port from plastic bottles all day - even though drinking in common areas carries a $500 fine.

Transvestite Ziggy Wilhelmsen, 50, believes people on the outside think he and all the residents of Kurringal Flats are creeps.

"The society around here thinks we are a big waste of time," he says sitting cross-legged on his couch in a shiny, dark brown wig.

"Sure we are poor and not much of us had a lot of education but we are a real mixed group here."

A 58-year-old disability pensioner who wants me to call her Mary tells me there is only one way to find out what Kurringal Flats is really like.

"You need to see it at night," she says.

Mary offers to let me stay on her couch in her one bedroom flat in block eight for a couple of nights.

I take up her offer and move in.

The Best Block

"Most of the people in this block are elderly, Christian and non-drinkers," Mary's friend Neil Williams, 53, tells me.

This block is pretty quiet it is the best block by far.

Mr Williams, also a disability pensioner, live upstairs from Mary in a two-bedroom apartment which he pays $160 a fortnight to rent. Both have been here for over a decade.

Block eight backs onto a quiet suburban street and Waratah oval where Kurringal residents regularly drink.


Kurringal Flats was built by the federal government in 1966. At its peak there were eight blocks which housed 350 people. Two blocks were demolished in 2001.

Another three were bulldozed two years later and Kurringal Court retirement village, for Territory Housing tenants aged over 55, was built on the land.

Now there are 91 tenants living in 78 units. A further six are empty. Everyone agrees the worst building is block six in the middle.

Mary's neighbour, John Mu, whose screen door was recently broken down in a police raid, tells me that block six is not safe.

"When you are going in there be careful. They can punch you or stab you. You can see the blood on the ground. Police go there all the time," he says.

Block four, on Dick Ward Drive, is considered to be somewhere in between not as safe as eight but far better than six...

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I read the entire article today and I just think the place would be like living with the Apes in a cage in a zoo! Not just Abbos but transvestite wierdos, and a dirty white guy on a disability support pension who is a "ladies man " with all the black women come his pension day. The article mentioned this race traitor "gin jockey" is the victim of jealous black baboons and gets regularly bashed and has had a fire hose flood his house through his kitchen window on multiple times.

What a lovely environment our taxes pay for? I really don't know why they don't just bulldoze the lot, hand them a tent each and ship them off to Australian Antarctic territoies? Do the community a favor, send the Zoo elsewhere and release some land for new families wanting to work in Darwin.
DISGUSTING!

look at the original URL and be sure to look at the video gallery pictures of this "lovely tropical establishment where you can experience indigenous culture at it's finest"... your hard earned tax dollars at work!

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