Calls for Relocation to Curb Indigenous Clan Violence in Remote NT Town

The social unrest in the township caused by clan rivalry has been going on for weeks, prompting the deployment of extra police.

Women and children cross the main street in the aboriginal town of Wadeye in the Northern Territory, Australia, on April 6, 2005. AAP Image/Dean Lewins

Ongoing fighting involving crossbows, spears and axes in an outback Northern Territory (NT) town divided by clan rivalry is exasperating police amid calls for people to be relocated to tribal homelands.

Cars have been torched and police vehicles damaged during brawls in Wadeye that involved more than 100 people, including children as young as eight.