Alice Springs
Subtitle: its history & the people who made it
By: Peter Donovan.
Contributors: Alice Springs (N.T.). Town Council.
Publisher: Alice Springs Town Council
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Alice Springs, NT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
Subjects: Alice Springs (N.T.) -- History.
Description: Covers history of relations between Aborigines and explorers, pastoralists, miners and settlers; conflicts, particularly Barrow Creek and Coniston killings; establishment of Hermannsburg, and Catholic missions and the Bungalow; work of Olive Pink; Aboriginal wartime army labour force; later tensions because of alcoholism, establishment of town camps, land rights movements, threats to sacred sites by expansion of Alice Springs; exposure through film of Jedda, art of Albert Namatjira and CAAMA.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-390) and index.