Haven Back Packer Resort

The Haven Backpacker Resort in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australian provides low cost dormitory style accommodation. It is owned by Adventure Tours Australia As at March 2008 it claimed to be the newest bacpackers resort in Alice Springs.
The resort gained national fame on Monday 11 March 2008 when the ABC's Lateline program claimed that a group of young native Australian trainee lifesavers had been asked to leave allegedly because of the colour of their skin.
The trainees, mostly young women, had been chosen because of their leadership abilities and were being trained by the Royal Life Saving Society Australia so that they could ensure the safety of people using the new swimming pool at their community of Yuendumu.
According to Rob Bradley, CEO Royal Life Saving Society Australia a staff member had been taken aside and told that the trainees would have to go. He said that there was an excuse that there had been a complaint by other guests but added that "looking into that there was no complaint, there was no reason, it was just pure racism."
On Thursday The Age carried a report that a former employee of the hostel claimed that exclusion of Aborigines was a well understood, though not written, policy of the hostel management. It also reported that the company which owns the hostel was revisiting its investigation

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