Who decided were some of these camps get situated.?
I seen a documentary about mining in Australia about 5 years or more ,and 2 indigenous communities or camps where doing mining on their own ,there communities where self funded and had very little to any government funding.
How it come about for 1 community ,was a large mining company got a lease to mine part of their land,the community got royalties ,plus they asked if a percentage of the community could work on the mine,after a while of working 3 of the younger indigenous workers went and got business management diploma's ,these where all funded by the mining company ,and the 3 got positions learning how to manage a mining operations .
A couple of year's later the community started there own successful mining operations,2 of the young indigenous who completed the business course where female and they are the bosses of the operation.
One of the females said everything changed for the whole community ,she said there was little to no violence anymore ,everyone had some sort of paid employment .
Now of course that's not going to work for most of these communities ,but if a idea by Richard Pratt many year's ago was to see fruition ,it would change so many lives and provide large amounts of employment ,and businesses .
He proposed they should build a dam in the north of the NT/ and trap the monsoon rain,and pipe it down to the Alice and outlying area's ,and create a food bowl,the climate is perfect for growing vegetables and fruit etc .
Of course the initial cost would be huge ,but the benefits in the future could be huge,we would no longer have to import any fruit/vegetables etc from overseas ,in fact we export to northern countries who are going into there winter
Employment could run into thousands ,and there would be so many opportunities to start businesses .,because everyone needs to eat .
