Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Aus.) the town of Alice Springs.

1901		F.J. Gillen Diary (1968) 92: I was sleeping on a canvas covered stretcher which I procured at the Alice .
1945		Baker Aus. Lang.
1968		S. Gore Holy Smoke 24: Y’know what happened when I’m at th’ Alice the other day?
2005		D. Whitefield Call of the Kyeema 78: The wife of one of the officers ‘down at the Alice,’ had been taken seriously ill as a result of a difficult pregnancy and had been flown to Adelaide.
2008		A.W. Upfield Up and Down Aus. 168: An ordinary man would have left his camels at the Alice and taken the train.