Alice

16th May
Alice is a funny little place.
An island of civilisation in a sea of largely unpopulated outback.
There are two communities living here and they appear worlds appart.
The white australian appear to live affluant middle class lives with pretty suburban houses and fashionable clothes.
The Aboriginal people who here speak their own language appear really poor.
Most ware very old clothes and many don't ware shoes.
Alice has many centers for aboriginal services like education and health.
There are many aborignal people sitting in the parks, public places and dry river, lighting camp fires.
Education seems to be largely sepparate. A class of young aboriginal kids were being treated to ice-cream in mc donalds while I was there. They would chat away to each other in their own language but their teachers were white australians and would teach them in english, there where no white kids.

17th May
Went for a walk in the hills around alice, there were tonnes of kangaroos, skipping all over the place, cool.