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Definition of town camp in English: town campnoun Australian An Aboriginal camp in or near a town. an officer has re-engaged over 60 young Indigenous people with the education system, many of them from town camps Example sentencesExamples - I expect that the men, women and children that live in the town camps are even more frustrated.
- Denise was born here and grew up in one of the town camps.
- Each town camp comprises a largely distinct Aboriginal community organized along language and kinship lines.
- She identified a glaring need for those kids living in town camps to have access to education in a setting away from the mainstream system.
- Many town camp residents have at some stage in their lives either been evicted by Territory Housing or abandoned their Territory Housing tenancy in the face of imminent eviction.
- The majority of town camps have Arrente residents, many of whom are traditional owners or descendants of traditional owners of Alice Springs and its immediate surrounds.
- Today there are eighteen separate town camp communities throughout Alice Springs, with 204 houses.
- Without the town camps, homelessness in Alice Springs would be a real national emergency.
- I am frustrated that after so long there has been no physical progress made to relieve conditions in the town camps.
- The town council has no way of providing services inside town camps as they are private property.
- Currently, about 3500 people live in the town camps, about 2000 of them permanent residents.
- Once worthless pieces of land on the fringes of Alice Springs, town camp communities today are valuable pieces of real estate, as the town has swollen around them.
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