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- Title
- Alice Springs
- Author(s)
- Hogan, Eleanor
- Abstract
- Alice Springs, Alice, The Alice, Mparntwe is the most talked about but least familiar place in Australia. It is a town of extremes and contradictions: searingly hot and bitterly cold, thousands of miles from anywhere, the heart of black Australia and the headquarters of the controversial NT Intervention. It's seen as a place where blokes are blokes, yet the town has a high lesbian population. It is the gateway to the red centre, but relatively few Australians have been there. Its striking landscape and modern facilities attract those looking for a desert change, yet it is a town where frontier conflicts still hold sway. Eleanor Hogan's Alice Springs reveals the texture of everyday life in this town through the passage of the local seasons.
- Publication type
- Book
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences. The Swinburne Institute for Social Research
- Publication year
- 2012
- Keyword(s)
- Alice Springs; Cities; Indigenous affairs; Outback Australia
- Publisher
- NewSouth Books
- ISBN
- 9781742233253, 1742233252
- Publisher URL
- http://www.newsouthbooks.com.au/isbn/9781742233253.htm
- Copyright
- Copyright © Eleanor Hogan 2012.
- Peer reviewed
