Fringe-dwellers and Welfare

Download or read book Fringe-dwellers and Welfare written by Jeff Collmann and published by University of Queensland Press(Australia). This book was released on 1988 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.