Nearly a decade after the Northern Territory intervention,residents of Indigenous town camps in Alice Springs are fighting to regain control of their lives as they wrestle with longstanding social problemsSitting with cups of tea, cigarettes and a cat named Meow Meow on the veranda of a tidy pink house in central Australia, or Geoff Shaw interrupts his wife to check I’m recording what she has to say.
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 approximately issues of violence, and alcohol,housing and the intervention by the Australian government.
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Source: theguardian.com