There’s been a lot of focus recently on the mess of a situation in a little town in the far north west of Australia called Wadeye (pronounced Wad-air). It has the largest Aboriginal community in the country and is being torn apart by gangs who take their names directly from their favourite metal bands. Pretty much everyone who lives in Wadeye is a member of one of the two main gangs —The Judas Priest Boys and the Evil Warriors (the name of a song by Florida death metal band, Possessed). Then there are the smaller gangs who have their own identities and agendas but generally align themselves with one of the two main gangs. There’s Lica (as in the end of Metallica) Warriors, Mad Warriors, Fear Factory, Big T (taken from the band Testament), the German Punks, the White Lions and the Cowboys From Hell (the name of a Pantera album from 91).
The town of Wadeye was created in the 1930s when 20 different Aboriginal clans were pulled together to make it easier to deliver basic services to them. The problem started around about the same time when it turned out none of the clans actually got along and none of the services were ever properly delivered. Of the 2,500 people that live there now, half are under 15 years old and most have never been to school. There is barely any housing (it’s not uncommon for up to20 people to live in one house) or jobs, sexual and physical abuse is rife and the gangs devote the rest of their time to trashing the few remaining houses which means most of the women and children have left and are living in tents in surrounding areas like Darwin. A genius Government initiative launched around 2002 to restore some kind of order to the place has managed to change absolutely fucking nothing and with a grand total of five police officers based there, the place is likely to resemble hell for a lot longer.











Reader Comments
May 26th, 2006
3:02 am
about fkn time vice australia pulled its head out of its arse.
May 26th, 2006
6:34 am
Possessed is from San Francisco. Just saying.
May 26th, 2006
6:37 am
Vice DOES need to publish more stuff like this.
I’m glad this is here, but please, instead of a couple of paragraphs we need a proper article.
Vice writers seem to be able to waffle on about all sorts, so why not this?
May 26th, 2006
5:17 pm
I’m afraid you’re forgetting one group responsible for all this: the aboriginals. Australian natives have the lowest IQs in the world (65). Worse, even, than the average in Africa (80) which is the same as people with Down’s Syndrome. With an IQ like 65 you are destined for strife no matter how much money and programs the whites (100) pour in.
May 26th, 2006
6:27 pm
Who gives a shit about austraLlians let alone small town abbos? why are we always trying to save the world. ITS NOT OUR PROBLEM!
May 26th, 2006
6:37 pm
I care. Does that make me gay?
May 27th, 2006
2:09 am
if you care for dudes, then, uh, yeah, your gay, FAGGOT
May 27th, 2006
3:29 am
WHy dont vice aus report about this more? Because theyre a bunch of inner city fags that have NO IDEA. Just like the rest of the east coast. I could have read that same article in any of todays papers. I live in alice springs and you are all ignorant of what its like up here. PS. Nanette Rogers has hot daughters. Hi Poppy, hi Alice!
May 27th, 2006
6:13 am
and how do you suppose they are gonna have a desent IQ if they ‘re 15 and never been to school. Its true that you could have read this aticle in any other newspaper. but…alot of people accessing this site ARE just a bunch of innercity scenesters whose main reading comes out of comic books and the few things they glance over in pornos. so the fact that it is, would you prefer us fags informed orr ignorant.
May 27th, 2006
8:17 am
“…WHy dont vice aus report about this more? Because theyre a bunch of inner city fags that have NO IDEA….”
took the words right of my mouth homey (must have been while you were kissing me)
did you see the australian vice summer thing? looked like something out of dazed & confused or some gay fashion mag. they have no ballos mane. there was a photo of some douche bayg fitzroy btch in a i heart ny tee and she got a mention for being stylee. oh ho ho ho. haha.
but they did do an article on going to an aboriginal themed restaurant, really putting their lives on the line for that one.
vice australia must be some white people who are scared of black people. like most australians. vice overseas seems to have some raw mfuckaz who expose some scary shit. but not aus…
pick up your balls.
May 27th, 2006
6:37 pm
I love vice aus. what else is there? we didnt have anything before they came here and im damn glad vice made the trip. by the way its “decent.”
May 28th, 2006
5:51 am
aktifmag.
they should have gived the franchise to somebody people with some big balls mane. like the dude that used to do aktifmag in melbourne. this dude was good and was not afraid to burn bridges and take raging shits on all the trendy places that the vice aus writers must spend all their time being cool at.
at least get sued or arrested or something your letting the team down.
but wait, they snuck into some swimming pools last summer and wrote an ‘article’ about it.
the fact that theres nothing else here is no excuse in fact its even more reason to do your job well.
(im just saying, btw)
May 28th, 2006
7:51 am
but this articles really fkn good, its just too little too late.
May 29th, 2006
12:05 am
They score low on IQ tests because they are designed for the white man. If you sat a black man’s IQ test you’d score fucking shit as well, whitey.
May 30th, 2006
8:31 pm
If that is so then please explain why Asians consistently score higher than whites?
May 30th, 2006
11:04 pm
touche
May 31st, 2006
1:02 pm
How can u help people that don’t wont to be helped? abbo’s have hugh chip’s on there shoulders like a lot of black people
May 31st, 2006
1:54 pm
if they’re 15 and never been to school? A school education is free to anyone in Australia fuckwit, all they need to do is stop sniffing glue for 5 min and turn up
May 31st, 2006
4:02 pm
and MY posts get deleted? why isnt the webmaster purging these meany racist comments? Oh cause you all agree with them you communists
May 31st, 2006
8:36 pm
communists are racist? i thought their whole thing was pushing for stuff like affirmative action and lying to the public if it didn’t fit their pie-in-the-sky world view.
actually it seems you’re right. What is more racist than providing people with favors based on their race? Capitalists just say: ‘you’re either good enough for the job or you’re not. We don’t what race you are’ we just want to sell milk crates.
June 1st, 2006
12:21 am
the aboriginal people are so COMPLETELY F*CKED on such a huge scale and white australia is so embarrassed of them and guilty and just wishes theyd just go away that it would be a good idea if condaleeza ‘got that rice’ and done some ‘regime change’ down here.
australia is like a south african ku klux klan holiday park.
its hitler on the beach.
dude up there with his “anyone can go to school if they just stop sniffing glue” shit - thats like saying the people of chernobyl just need to get some fucking exercise and stop eating junk food.
you need to be drug through a black village and beaten to death in your underpants.
June 1st, 2006
1:33 am
ok, this is such a complex issue that some of these comments are right out of order…white australia is embarrassed by the third world conditions endured by the aboriginal people, but there is just as much call for change within the aboriginal community as there is outside. when it comes down to it, only so much money and support services and government involvement can be used to try and bring these people back out of the hole where they are now.
the biggest call for change is coming from aboriginal leaders, the change needs to come from within and aboriginal people need to work together to get on top of the violence, glue sniffing and poor health conditions.
anyways, before people start posting more ignant shit on here, read this! and get more of an idea what it is really like in australian politics and attitudes!
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200606/s1652394.htm
June 1st, 2006
9:55 am
People poisoned by radiation and Aboriginals?
Oh do u mean white Australia poisoned the Aboriginals like the reactor at Chernobyl
Wow that’s deep man
u should wright a poem about it
Faggot
June 1st, 2006
11:39 am
like i said. NO IDEA. any of yous
June 1st, 2006
11:39 am
No
A rap song with Mundine!
That gets banned
“whites poison like Chernobyl”
June 1st, 2006
2:21 pm
The majority of you dumb whites ignore the fact that any attempt to help those who you have kept impoverished, is completely bunk, as long as you push your white rules on people with different cultures. You can talk all this IQ bullshit, like it actually matters, but the only real correlation between numbers and actions, is that low amounts of money equals extra crime. The Australians oppressed the Aboriginals, the Europeans ravaged Africa, the Americans kept blacks oppressed; so forth and so on. You whites created the issues, now you need to deal with them and stick with it.
June 1st, 2006
4:58 pm
Still playing the oppressed card in 2006 Millons of ravaged Africans and black Americans and Aboriginals get up every morning and go to work or school every day just like millons of whites.
just like millons of whites, Africans, black Americans and aboriginals around the world get up at miday get fucked up and invole them selfs in crime
June 2nd, 2006
6:53 am
yeah i talk a good one but i could probably beat you up.
yeah i do mean white australia poisoned the aboriginals like chernobyl. im not saying its the end of the world. lets just admit it and get on with it. its like child abuse, whites are just repeating what got done to them by the saxons or the romans or the english irish gypsy whatever you want to call it.
i know a few faggots who could beat you up too daniel. samoan ones.
its not playing the oppressed card. at some point you gotta say that we’re here to help people because at the end of the day thats what makes the human race anything more than a shitstain. well, some of us, the rest will be shit.
yeah theres a contradiction in saying you’ll beat up one person and help another. contradictions are good.
ok to change the subject: is there no such thing as never? because if never is true then even never is never like there is no never theres never a never but if theres never a never then theres never never a never. and so on. please explain.
i like australia but the racist shit is a bit of a worry dont you think? ok the racist shit is kind of cool but the do not talk about the racism rule is fucked up.
australians dont talk about sharks, flies, or aboriginals.
ive had enough of this country and i want to get the fuck out.
and i dont even like aborigines.
love,
d.
xx
June 2nd, 2006
7:14 am
actually yeah nah you’re right.
i love this place.
im just hungover.
June 2nd, 2006
10:56 am
Hey mate take it easy
This just step up a gear
no need to drop that u know “Gay Samoans”
u must be one crazy motherfucker!
do they ever beat u?
Like primal hardcore German shit?
June 3rd, 2006
9:07 am
yeah like most white boys in auckland i did get the shit beat out of me by samoans. its like riding a bike though because last night i damn near did it again. i used to love having to run my shit on k road after you drink with em all night and they turn on ya. its fkn great. jonah lomu in a mini skirt. fk i miss auckland.
but yeah take it easy you’re right everythings getting a bit ‘full on’.
the dudes upstairs just didnt like it when i said most australians are scared of black people.
the truth hurts.
ok i promise i’ll take it easy now.
bye.
June 20th, 2006
1:31 am
grant, its still going…it’s just overseaq…
check out the website…www.aktifmag.com
for the world cup special
July 16th, 2006
11:16 am
dls i really hope you dont live in my country. reading your posts was like taking a shit after a 4 day bender. i hope you’re nowhere near the east coast. you’re certainly not in any cool bars looking cool. actually i think i know you. are you the guys who sits out the front of 7eleven and smells like he shit himself?
i thought so