WADEYE: More than a Game

Just weeks before Jy Farrar and Shane McAdam played an off-season game of football in a remote Northern Territory community, the same field they ran out on was being used as a "war ground". Wadeye, an Indigenous community located six hours south-west of Darwin, had been gripped by tension in 2022, with dozens of houses destroyed as locals fought. A weekend of footy proved to be the very thing that could unite this community. "I think we left the town in a better place than when we got there. That's something I hold very close to me," Jy Farrar