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Alice town camps dispute resolved

Thursday July 30, 2009
A BITTER dispute between the Federal Government and the indigenous Tangentyere Council over management of the squalid Alice Springs town camps has finally been settled.

The Truth Is Outback

Saturday July 5, 2008
Aboard his mothership, Robert Upe finds life, but not as he knows it, on a road trip from Alice Springs to Darwin.

Race Row Lifeguards Get Trip To Sydney For Training And Some Fun

Wednesday May 28, 2008
A GROUP of trainee lifeguards booted out of an Alice Springs hostel earlier this year because they were Aborigines will come to Sydney next week to complete their training.

Hostel Eviction Of Aborigines 'not Isolated'

Wednesday March 12, 2008
THE refusal by an Alice Springs hostel to accommodate a group of young Aboriginal women last weekend is not an isolated case, the Northern Territory's Anti-Discrimination Commissioner said yesterday.

Treatment A Reflection Of Sad Reality

Wednesday March 12, 2008
The racism experienced by the 16 Aboriginal women and children from Yuendumu who had travelled to Alice Springs to attend Royal Life Saving Society of Australia swimming classes is an experience that has been shared by many indigenous Australians.

Prejudice And Pride

Wednesday March 12, 2008
Alice Springs is struggling to keep the racist genie in the bottle, writes Russell Skelton.

Nt Women Cast Out As 'scary'

Tuesday March 11, 2008
A GROUP of young Aboriginal women plan to file a racial discrimination complaint after they were asked to leave an Alice Springs hostel at the weekend because they had "scared" Asian tourists.

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

Thursday May 17, 2007
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

Friday May 11, 2007
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.

Alice Town Camps Can Keep Leases

Thursday April 19, 2007
RESIDENTS OF Alice Springs' troubled and poverty-stricken town camps will no longer have to give up control of their land before the Government agrees to clean up the camps, following a policy U-turn by federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Mal Brough.

$50m To Convert Alice Camps Into Suburbs

Wednesday March 14, 2007
THE violent and poverty-stricken town camps of Alice Springs will be turned into mainstream suburbs with $50 million of Federal Government funding to upgrade houses, roads, sewerage and other services.

$70m Plan Aims To Turn The Alice's Camps Into Suburbs

Wednesday March 14, 2007
THE town camps of Alice Springs will be landscaped, paved and filled with suburban-style homes as part of a $70 million attempt by the Federal Government to clean up outlying indigenous areas.

$30m Plan To Fix 'appalling' Alice Camps

Sunday May 7, 2006
ALICE SPRINGS town camps - notorious for their soaring crime rates, endemic poverty and domestic violence - will undergo a radical transformation with the announcement of a $30 million plan to improve conditions.

Arty Alice

Thursday February 23, 2006
Alice Springs might be the last place you would expect an art explosion, but it is happening.

No Other Town Like Alice Springs

Friday April 27, 2001
VISITORS to Alice Springs will find plenty of attractions in the town and its outlying areas.

Resort's 16mm Movies Prove Popular In Alice

Saturday January 13, 2001
IN this age of electronic whiz-bangery, instant videos and computer games and goodness knows what else, the Alice Springs Resort did what many would think a somewhat strange thing to help amuse guests.

Alice In Wonderland As Blue-water Crew Up The Creek

Thursday December 19, 1996
Of all the training regimes developed by Sydney-to-Hobart race crews, none can be as surreal as those of the Alice Springs Yacht Club. Defying their land-locked and perpetually sun-baked environment, 18 sailing desperates from two crews have been flying spinnakers out of trees and practising tac