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.

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

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.

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

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.