Fringe-dwellers and welfare : the Aboriginal response to bureaucracy / Jeff Collmann
- Bib ID:
- 862839
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Collmann, Jeffrey Reid
- Description:
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- St. Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 1988
- xv, 276 p. : ill., geneal. table, maps ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0702220671 (paperback)
- Summary:
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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.
- Full contents:
- Includes index
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. [259]-268.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Alice Springs -- Government relations
- Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Alice Springs -- Public welfare
- Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Alice Springs -- Social conditions
- Squatter settlements -- Northern Territory -- Alice Springs
- Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations
- Community organisations - Housing
- Race relations - Racism - Stereotyping
- Occupations - Pastoral industry workers
- Law - Legal aid services
- Housing - Associations and cooperatives
- Substance use - Social and economic aspects
- Habitation - Camps - Fringe and town
- Demography - Family and household characteristics
- Social behaviour - Roles
- Northern Territory - North NT
- Mparntwe / Alice Springs (South Central NT SF53-14)
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1988
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