Bert Longbottom is chairman of the Eastern Zone Aboriginal Housing and Community Association, the organization responds to a housing crisis and finds housing for nine families.. the relationship between local Aborigines and the larger community has been an odd and neglected one. "We often let the Gubs (non Aborigines) do our work for us, speak for us. I certainly resent that..” (After 200 Years, Ed Penny Taylor 1988)