The Wire

Tony Abbott is distressed at how Indigenous people are living in Alice Spring town camps. Followed by the media, he sat in a wet humpy in Hoppy’s Camp, and said that conditions were quote: “pretty grim”. The message he seems to be sending is that the Rudd Government is too slow in providing housing. But one could ask what difference this photo opportunity will mean to the men who live in the humpy, given so many politicians have been here before.