Title Fringe-dwellers and welfare : the Aboriginal response to bureaucracy / Jeff Collmann

Published St. Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 1988

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W'PONDS	306.0899915 Col		AVAILABLE

Description xv, 276 pages : illustrations, genealogical table, maps ; 22 cm Contents Includes index Summary The rise of fringe camps in Alice Springs in response to the development of welfare administration in the NT; Mt Kelly camp in particular; fringe camps as a strategy of minimising involvement with white agencies, facilitating access to white controlled resources; effect of welfare strategies on family structure, role of women; working relationship between Aboriginal stockworkers, white bosses; drinking as a means of repaying debt, establishing debt relationships; analysis of violence in relationship to status and debt relationships; race relations in the town at the time of fieldwork; Mt Kelly Housing Association; establishment of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs in 1972, Central Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service, 1974 Analysis Aboriginal Australians - Northern Territory - Alice Springs Aboriginal Australians - Northern Territory - Alice Springs - Aboriginal Australians - Northern Territory - Alice Springs - Urban residence Aboriginal Australians - Northern Territory - Social conditions Aboriginal Australians - Public welfare Aboriginal Australians - Social conditions Australian aborigines Social life Government relations Public welfare Social conditions Squatter settlements - Northern Territory - Alice Springs Notes Includes index Bibliography Bibliography: pages [259]-268 Notes Also issued online Copy 3 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations. Aboriginal Australians -- Public welfare -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Alice Springs Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions. Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Alice Springs (N.T.) Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Government relations. Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Alice Springs (N.T.) -- Government relations. Aboriginal Australians -- Public welfare -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Alice Springs (N.T.) Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Alice Springs (N.T.) -- Social conditions. Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Alice Springs -- Government relations Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Alice Springs -- Social conditions Aboriginal Australians -- Urban residence -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Alice Springs Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Alice Springs Squatter settlements -- Australia -- Alice Springs (N.T.) Squatter settlements -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Alice Springs (N.T.) Squatter settlements -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Alice Springs LC no. 70222067 ISBN 0702220671 (paperback)

Other Titles Fringe dwellers and welfare

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