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When Barack Obama visits Darwin this week the people he won’t see are the ones that usually live and sleep on the streets and given the tropical climate and the number of displaced and visiting Aboriginal people that can be as many as two thousand.

They’ll be out of sight and out of mind as Obama watches the sun set over the esplanade Ilana Eldridge is the chief executive of Larrakia nation She says the people being moved will be found secure places to go but it is time the government stopped seeing homelessness as an anti-social behaviour.

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