Word: artesian
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...Estens and his team have had success in Moree (pop. 10,250), a place known for its artesian baths and, since the 1950s, its festering racial tensions, crime, poverty and social dysfunction. Forty years ago, Moree was one of the key stops on the Freedom Ride, led by Charles Perkins and other students, to draw attention to discrimination against blacks. In 1997, Estens started the Aboriginal Employment Strategy (AES), a not-for-profit company that tries to find work for indigenous people through corporate partnerships; going beyond the standard approaches of employment agencies, the AES is staffed solely by indigenous...
...postcode 0852, consists of one establishment: the Wanda Inn roadhouse. But the petrol station?pub?motel, 300 km southwest of Katherine, has the feel of a small town. Within its tidy sprawl of accommodation blocks, trailers, caravans and tents - powered by a shed-sized generator and watered by an artesian well - manager Terry Jones and her seven staff (plus Spike the dog, Pickles the wallaroo and a resident python) host a shifting population of local cattlemen and Aborigines, road workers, tourists and truckers. Isolated the place may be, says Jones, a former hairdresser, but it's never lonely...