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00:00 'Kids here don't eat every day': Remote communities struggling. When families don't come into the only grocery store in the Northern Territory Indigenous community of Warruwi, the shop's manager Nathan Wood worries things are going wrong at home. Normally people in the community of 500 on South Goulburn Island off the Arnhem Land coast food shop daily. "There's a lot of young children out here that don't get to eat every day," he says, while local residents say often their whole fortnight's budget is eaten up by one grocery store trip. 01:59 Remote stores boss warns Indigenous communities in food crisis. The head of Australia's biggest independent remote stores network is calling for increased welfare payments for indigenous communities, because he says in 30 years, he hasn't seen them finding it so difficult to afford enough food. Stepping down from the helm of the Arnhem Land Progress Association, Alistair King says families are being forced to live on Weet-Bix and damper to survive at the end of their Centrelink payments fortnight. Filed by Jane Bardon for Stateline Northern Territory. Subscribe: http://ab.co/1svxLVE Read more here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-0... ABC NEWS provides around the clock coverage of news events as they break in Australia and abroad. It's news when you want it, from Australia's most trusted news organisation. For more from ABC NEWS, click here: https://ab.co/2kxYCZY Watch more ABC NEWS content ad-free on ABC iview: https://ab.co/2OB7Mk1 Go deeper on our ABC NEWS In-depth channel: https://ab.co/2lNeBn2 Like ABC NEWS on Facebook:   / abcnews.au   Follow ABC NEWS on Instagram:   / abcnews_au   Note: In most cases, our captions are auto-generated. #ABCNEWS #ABCNEWSAustralia #ABCNewsNT