Residents in Wadeye have agreed with the NT government to settle a class action over what they say were discriminatory healthcare policies in the remote Aboriginal community. The agreement ends a ...

Residents of a remote Aboriginal community have dropped a long running class action against the Territory government for allegedly failing to provide essential health and interpreter services.

"They'll be proud of themselves, they catching fish," he said. The homeland sits outside the remote West Daly community of Wadeye — the most incarcerated community in the Northern Territory.

Wadeye officers initially responded to reports of unrest around midday on Saturday, working to separate the groups involved. Tensions between families escalated into a community-wide disturbance.