The article is very informative .. here is a brief excerpt. it's a good read.

Excerpt: In September, an Indigenous man in Darwin was handed a fine for begging alms, failing to comply with a loitering notice and using a musical instrument in a public place.

The $450 fine (and $150 levy) he was ordered to pay was piled onto the several thousand dollars he already owed the Northern Territory Government. The causes for the other debts are unknown, but court records show numerous interactions with the Fines Recovery Unit.

The incident was one of many daily interactions between Darwin's public institutions — police, council rangers, frontline health staff, shelters — and the sprawling, highly visible population of Indigenous visitors who live in the city's streets, parks and bushland — locally known as long grassers.

Two worlds in one city, overlapping all the time.

A doctor who worked at this coalface for 18 months (and asked us not to use her name) was struck by the contrast between Darwin's homeless population and those in the southern states.

They were population of pariahs, she said, a community dependent on the public health system, over-represented in the justice system, vulnerable and vibrant.

She asked Curious Darwin to investigate the reality of life for people who live in the long grass.