Many, many years ago in a previous life I spent a couple of months in Alice Springs. A mate was working in the casino (the same one that features in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert) and I stopped with him for a while to lose money at Two-up most evenings.
He had a station wagon and probably 4 or 5 nights a week, Aborigines attempted to steal it. Apparently they like station wagons because they generally have large families. I still remember hordes of Aborigines sitting drinking wine in the dry river bed that runs through Alice, day after day. I was told that boxes of wine was their preferred drink as it's cheap, fairly strong and they could use the empty bag as a pillow.
Alice seemed like a lawless place back then... this was some time in the early 90s.