Brough Hits At 'apartheid In Reverse' In Alice Springs Camps

ABORIGINES in the town camps of Alice Springs are benefiting from a reverse-apartheid system, according to federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Mal Brough, who is trying to strike a deal to turn the notorious camps into normal suburbs.

Camps Of Alice Agree To $70m Upgrade

THE makeshift and poverty-stricken town camps of Alice Springs will be upgraded into suburbs after residents agreed to a 99-year lease of their land in exchange for $70 million in upgrade money from Canberra.