Aboriginal intra-urban mobility in Katherine, Northern Territory
Very little is known about the movements of Aboriginal people within North Australian towns. This is partly due to a lack of adequate census data with which to measure intra-urban mobility but also reflects an enduring research interest in town camps to the relative exclusion of other arenas of Aboriginal urban existence. This paper presents some brief descriptive data from one Northern town which highlights the existence of Aboriginal population movement between housing sectors and provides an indication of the magnitude and direction of flows. A simple descriptive model of Aboriginal urban settlement is proposed as a basis for comparison with mobility patterns in other urban settings.
Aboriginal access to housing in alice springs
Summary This paper is about the housing supply system in Alice Springs and the access that Aborigines have to the various sections of that system. At present large numbers of Aborigines still live in self‐built dwellings in camps scattered in and around the town, although an increasing proportion is being housed in conventional units. The major factor in denying Aboriginal families access to better housing is their limited incorporation into regular wage employment. Not only does this deprive them of essential income, it also denies Aborigines the status which the present supply system deems necessary before an attempt at incorporation is considered worthwhile: other factors, such as racial prejudice, are also important. The extent to which small white pressure groups can manipulate the access of Aboriginal families to housing, even when it is designed and built especially for them, is illustrated in a brief case study.
French film theory and criticism : a history/anthology, 1907-1939
These two volumes examine a significant but previously neglected moment in French cultural history: the emergence of French film theory and criticism before the essays of Andr Bazin. Richard Abel has devised an organizational scheme of six nearly symmetrical periods that serve to "bite into" the discursive flow of early French writing on the cinema. Each of the periods is discussed in a separate and extensive historical introduction, with convincing explications of the various concepts current at the time. In each instance, Abel goes on to provide a complementary anthology of selected texts in translation. Amounting to a portable archive, these anthologies make available a rich selection of nearly one hundred and fifty important texts, most of them never before published in English.