Comments on: The Alice Springs hostel that turns out blackpackers

By: Tom McLoughlin

Tom McLoughlin — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Foreigners actually tend to be fascinated by the Indigenous. Doesn’t stack up. Still southern media will probably be dismissed as ignorant preachers by many in the NT. What this place clearly needs is strong legal direction but also strong mediation.

By: Lucy

Lucy — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Heh, if every inquiring mind is doing the same thing at $8.21 a pop Hostelworld might just have a nice little earner here, negative publicity notwithstanding. Then there’s the highly niche market of open bigots who have just found their new fave hotel…

By: Lazarus

Lazarus — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

This action is wierd, even by Alice Springs standards. Last tape I heard up there supported a dirt barrier not a colour bar.

By: Grant Butler

Grant Butler — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

A (white) friend of mine was recently refused service in a backpackers bar in near Roma St station in Brisbane on the gropunds that he was Australian. Don’t know the facts of this affair, but it does seem that this odd sort of discrimination does exist.

By: Classified

Classified — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Great minds Guy, we did the same thing via hostelnorthernterritory.com earlier today to see what would happen… guess
Surely, a door is grinding open somewhere in the bunkers of slater@gordan and a small army of Terminators are emerging

By: Venise Alstergren

Venise Alstergren — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

The thought of stoned Australian tourists; backpacks, thongs, tinnies and nasal voices raised in drunken song would make me declare my pub off limits to all Australians. Most especially the white ones.