Sentence examples for aboriginal towns from inspiring English sources

She thinks the new system will bring security for private investors in aboriginal towns, and that jobs will follow.While they wait for the jobs to arrive, many aboriginal leaders worry that such bipartisan interventions may simply undermine the land councils and leave aborigines more dependent on handouts than ever.

To illustrate his point, he travels to an aboriginal town whose residents, before 1973, consumed no processed or store-bought food.

The disabled old man who struggled to get up lives in one of the Aboriginal town camps that have existed on the physical and psychic fringes of Alice Springs for as long as the town has been here.

The alleged rape of a seven-year-old girl in Alice Springs has prompted the Northern Territory government to hold an audit of service providers working in the region's Aboriginal town camps.

Galiwinku was administered for many years by an Aboriginal town council, but in 2008 the entire region was absorbed into East Arnhem shire (now East Arnhem region), which assumed responsibility for local government.

The Northern Territory government has announced a sweeping review into Aboriginal town camps on the same day an ongoing parliamentary inquiry held its second public hearing into largely the same topic.

The interview is meant to be with Shaw, the former president of a council representing more than a dozen Aboriginal town camps near Alice Springs, to talk about issues of violence, alcohol, housing and the intervention by the Australian government.

On Aug. 17, Parliament completed approval of legislation that, among other measures, requires welfare recipients to spend half their income on food, fines them if their children do not attend school, bans alcohol and pornography in Aboriginal areas in the Northern Territory and clears the way for the government to purchase five-year leases on Aboriginal town land.

Suddenly, Wright, a longtime indigenous rights activist who had participated in an extended struggle in the 1980s to make the Northern Territory Aboriginal town Tennant Creek dry, found herself asked to appear on television and radio not only as a novelist, but also as an expert.

For the last few years, we've been fascinated by a small tribal Aboriginal town in the Northern Territory, about six hours drive south west of Darwin, called Wadeye and so finally, last Wednesday, we packed seven cameras and five cans of insect repellent and headed north to find out what the place was like for ourselves.

From the 1970s and '80s the drift of Aboriginals to the towns and cities transformed the old patterns except in Northern Territory, where the rural distribution has remained predominant.