an officer has re-engaged over 60 young Indigenous people with the education system, many of them from town camps
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I expect that the men, women and children that live in the town camps are even more frustrated.
Denise was born here and grew up in one of the town camps.
Each town camp comprises a largely distinct Aboriginal community organized along language and kinship lines.
She identified a glaring need for those kids living in town camps to have access to education in a setting away from the mainstream system.
Many town camp residents have at some stage in their lives either been evicted by Territory Housing or abandoned their Territory Housing tenancy in the face of imminent eviction.
The majority of town camps have Arrente residents, many of whom are traditional owners or descendants of traditional owners of Alice Springs and its immediate surrounds.
Today there are eighteen separate town camp communities throughout Alice Springs, with 204 houses.
Without the town camps, homelessness in Alice Springs would be a real national emergency.
I am frustrated that after so long there has been no physical progress made to relieve conditions in the town camps.
The town council has no way of providing services inside town camps as they are private property.
Currently, about 3500 people live in the town camps, about 2000 of them permanent residents.
Once worthless pieces of land on the fringes of Alice Springs, town camp communities today are valuable pieces of real estate, as the town has swollen around them.