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23 Jan 2023, 4:51 pm

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Senator Jacinta Price calls for children wandering streets of Alice Springs late at night to be removed from their families

The Country Liberal Senator called for action to be taken as residents describe seeing dozens of children - some as young as five - walking around the town unsupervised late at night.
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Country Liberal Party Senator Jacinta Price says children wandering the streets of Alice Springs late at night need to be removed from their families.

Dozens of children - some as young as five - can often be seen walking around the town unsupervised late at night.

Senator Price said authorities needed to ensure the children were safe.

“To leave a child in a dysfunctional situation because of their race because somehow being maintained in a dysfunctional family situation is more important to them because of their culture (is wrong),” she told AM Agenda host Laura Jayes.

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23 Jan 2023, 4:54 pm

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Jacinta Price renews calls for Anthony Albanese to visit 'war zone' Alice Springs and provide federal government support

Jacinta Price has renewed her calls for Anthony Albanese to visit Alice Springs which has been "described as a war zone" and to provide federal government support amid a crime crisis.
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January 23, 2023

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Indigenous Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has said federal government support is needed in Alice Springs with the Northern Territory town "described as a war zone".

Senator Price, a former deputy mayor of Alice Springs, has also been pushing for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to visit the town to see the situation on the ground for himself.

Alice Springs has been experiencing soaring rates of crime in recent months, with 300 people arrested in the past seven weeks alone and another 400 issued infringement notices.

There has also been reports of upwards of 200 children, some as young as five, roaming the streets late at night with many under the influence of alcohol.

An Alice Springs Woolworths was last week reportedly forced to close after a 13-year-old boy entered the store waving a machete.Indigenous Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has said federal government support is needed in Alice Springs with the Northern Territory town "described as a war zone".

Senator Price, a former deputy mayor of Alice Springs, has also been pushing for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to visit the town to see the situation on the ground for himself.

Alice Springs has been experiencing soaring rates of crime in recent months, with 300 people arrested in the past seven weeks alone and another 400 issued infringement notices.

There has also been reports of upwards of 200 children, some as young as five, roaming the streets late at night with many under the influence of alcohol.

An Alice Springs Woolworths was last week reportedly forced to close after a 13-year-old boy entered the store waving a machete.

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24 Jan 2023, 6:10 pm

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Chief Minister Natasha Fyles claims Northern Territory government has resources to combat plight of youth crime in Alice Springs ahead of PM's arrival

Chief Minister Natasha Fyles has claimed there are enough police officers in the Northern Territory to combat the surge in crime in Alice Springs during a live interview with Sky News Australia.
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January 24, 2023

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24 Jan 2023, 6:11 pm

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A local Alice Springs business owner has delivered an impassioned and desperate plea to clean up the embattled town’s streets as he declares: “These kids are not safe”.
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‘Lies, deceit, cover-up’: Alice Springs local’s fiery plea to save community’s youth
Alice Springs business owner and community leader Darren Clarke has sent a fiery message to the Territory government to intervene and protect the town’s youth as pressure mounts on Chief Minister...

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24 Jan 2023, 6:15 pm

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'It's just getting worse': Alice Springs business owners say town's 'neglected' children breaking into shops so they can eat

Mario Nishikawa, who runs security business Territory Guard, said children in the town 'were often left to fend to their own devices'.
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“They’re left to fend to their own devices. You’re talking about kids as young as six, seven, just prowling the streets, they’re just trying to get something to eat most of the time so a lot of vandalism is caused because of hunger and neglect,” he said.

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24 Jan 2023, 6:17 pm

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NT will not have ‘race-based policy’ that ‘disempowers’ Aboriginal Territorians: Fyles
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Northern Territory Chief Minister Natasha Fyles says the territory will not have a “race-based policy” that “disempowers” Aboriginal Territorians, as the government faces pressure to tackle the issue of alcohol and rising crime rates in the region.

“People out of the Northern Territory need to understand the context,” she told Sky News Australia.

“We have some of the most strictest alcohol supply measures, we will continue to work in that space, but we will not have a race-based policy that disempowers Aboriginal Territorians.”

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25 Jan 2023, 9:25 am

Alice Springs is one of the weirdest places I've ever been.

It was like two realities were overlaid on the same physical space, but super tangible. The white people and the black people moving among each other but not interacting with each other, almost like they couldn't see the other. Complete absence of integration. It felt very 'autistic' in that sense.


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25 Jan 2023, 6:42 pm

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NT Police Association warned government of eventual 'increased violence' upon end of alcohol bans as President slams Fyles' Alice Springs 'national embarrassment'

The NT Police Association has hit back at the territory government’s claim of having adequate police presence in Alice Springs and has revealed the “national embarrassment” was avoidable.
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January 25,

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Northern Territory Police Association President Paul McCue has said he warned the government mid-last year of the potential “increased harm” as a result of the lapsed alcohol bans.

Alice Springs’ crime wave has been thrust into the national spotlight as the town suffers through an epidemic of violence which many have attributed to the easing of the tough Stronger Futures laws.

The 15-year long intervention-era restrictions saw booze banned from many town camps in the territory, but were replaced in July with opt-in mandates.

In response to rising crime, 40 police officers were diverted to Alice from communities such as Tennant Creek in December.

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28 Jan 2023, 5:47 am

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Delay to reintroduce alcohol restrictions in remote Northern Territory communities causing havoc for Alice Springs residents

As night falls in Alice Springs, dozens of children, some as young as seven, can be seen wandering the streets. Locals say it’s been quiet this week after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese came to visit. On some nights, they say, up to 200 children will be on those streets.
Matt Cunningham

January 28, 2023

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Crime rates have been rising fast in Alice Springs for the past three years.

Police have attributed a spike in 2021 to the Morrison Government’s decision to double welfare payments during Covid-19 and allow early access to superannuation.

Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker has said bottles of Bundaberg Rum were selling on the black market for up to $700 during this period.

When the extra payments ended, there was a subsequent increase in property crime.

But Alice Springs community leaders say the bigger issue was a change to alcohol policy in July last year.

In 2007, the Howard Government Northern Territory Emergency Response – better known as the Intervention – banned alcohol in hundreds of smaller Indigenous communities, homelands and town camps in Darwin, Katherine, Tennant Creek and Alice Springs.

Those bans were extended under Federal Labor’s Stronger Futures legislation in 2012. But when that legislation expired on July 17 last year, the alcohol was allowed back in.

Most of the bigger Indigenous communities, including those surrounding Alice Springs, were not affected by the change. They had been dry before the Intervention under the Northern Territory Liquor Act and remained so after Stronger Futures expired.

But according to health experts and community leaders, the decision to allow alcohol to return to town camps has been catastrophic.
As night falls in Alice Springs dozens of children begin to roam the streets sometimes as many as 200 will be out. Picture: Liam Mendes / The Australian

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29 Jan 2023, 3:37 am

DuckHairback wrote:
The white people and the black people moving among each other but not interacting with each other, almost like they couldn't see the other. Complete absence of integration..


You have just described every white majority country



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29 Jan 2023, 3:43 am

I actually do agree to some extent with Jacinta Price. But the problem with regard child welfare, drug addiction and domestic violence are linked to unemployment in regional areas and this problem is also a problem with poor "whitefellas" in regional areas.

Homelessness, truancy, children forming gangs are a problem all over regional Australia.



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29 Jan 2023, 4:32 am

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I actually do agree to some extent with Jacinta Price. But the problem with regard child welfare, drug addiction and domestic violence are linked to unemployment in regional areas and this problem is also a problem with poor "whitefellas" in regional areas.

Homelessness, truancy, children forming gangs are a problem all over regional Australia.


The booze ban being lifted exacerbated the problem enormously.
This comment comes from the local aboriginal community, especially from the women at the end of domestic abuse.

Left-wing politics/PC before compassion.
What else is new? 8)



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29 Jan 2023, 7:08 am

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cyberdad wrote:
I actually do agree to some extent with Jacinta Price. But the problem with regard child welfare, drug addiction and domestic violence are linked to unemployment in regional areas and this problem is also a problem with poor "whitefellas" in regional areas.

Homelessness, truancy, children forming gangs are a problem all over regional Australia.


The booze ban being lifted exacerbated the problem enormously.
This comment comes from the local aboriginal community, especially from the women at the end of domestic abuse.

Left-wing politics/PC before compassion.
What else is new? 8)


In the case of aboriginal health and wellbeing labour have been just as bad at handling indigenous health. So no argument there.



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01 Feb 2023, 1:56 am

More unbiased reporting from the ABC. <extreme sarcasm> 8)


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Flagship ABC program under pressure to retract 'disgusting' report attempting to depict frightened Alice Springs locals as 'white supremacists'

The ABC is facing serious backlash over a “disgusting” report depicting an emergency community meeting in Alice Springs as being full of white supremacists with locals demanding the national broadcaster apologise.
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February 1, 2023

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Alice Springs locals and leaders are outraged at an ABC report depicting an emergency community meeting as full of “white supremacy” with some even suggesting impacted residents should abandon their town.

The Save Alice Springs meeting attracted up to 3,500 people on Monday night ranging from business owners, nurses, doctors and indigenous elders.

But in a report on its flagship Radio National AM program by Indigenous Affairs reporter Carly Williams, the ABC depicted the town as severely racially divided.

One attendee said the meeting was a “disgusting show of white supremacy” and was “scary” to be in the room.

Another told the ABC: “The tension and violence and anger in the room was really palpable and was clearly all around white supremacy and the safety of white people in this town.”
Up to 3,500 residents turned up for an emergency community meeting in Alice Springs on Monday. Picture: Getty Images

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However, a third interviewee suggested locals concerned with the rapid rise in crime borne out in recent police figures should abandon their town.

“I am way more concerned about the danger posed by those people in there those white people that have a choice whether to live here than vulnerable aboriginal children whose connection to this country cannot be broken,” she said.

“If they don’t like living here if they’ve got a problem with it they can leave.”

But the report has been blasted across the country with Alice Springs Mayor Matt Paterson demanding the national broadcaster retract the story which he described as a “kick in the teeth” to locals.

Mr Paterson, who led calls for greater Commonwealth intervention in Alice Springs and the return of the Stronger Futures laws, said the depiction of the meeting was “completely not true”.

“It’s adding unnecessary anxiety when we are all trying to come together to address the issue and here you’ve got the ABC lighting the fuse to have a race war,” he told reporters.

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Local businessman Darren Burton, who was forced to close his highly successful gelateria in Alice Springs due to almost 30 break-ins, joined the chorus of anger against the ABC’s coverage.

Mr Burton said the meeting was packed with “genuine, good, long-term locals” and many “strong indigenous families”.

“So to call them neo-Nazis and right wing I think is quite insulting,” Mr Burton told Sky News Australia’s Laura Jayes on Wednesday.

“They were probably the ten people up the back that probably didn’t have a shower for a week and were carrying on that the ABC had interviewed.
Alice Springs local Darren Burton said the townhall meeting was full of "genuine, good, long-term locals". Picture: Sky News Australia

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“It’s shocking that them comments come out considering that there were nurses, there were doctors there were people working in indigenous agencies around town and just business owners and mums and dads who turned up and they were concerned.”

Another long-time local and nurse in the Alice Springs area Rachel Hale delivered an emotional plea to the public broadcaster and the political elite to unite on the scourge of crime engrossing Alice.

Ms Hale lashed the ABC for “selectively” choosing three people from the meeting and then choosing to label the entire cohort as white supremacists.

“What are we doing those people are in pain, those people are frightened for their lives and they’re trying to come up with some solutions to tackle this problem,” Ms Hale told Sky News Australia’s Peta Credlin on Tuesday.

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“And they get labelled white supremacists, it’s disgusting.

“Every media outlet in Australia needs to come together now, every government organisation, every politician just please get on the same page now.”

The meeting on Monday resulted in the enraged locals threatening to sue the Northern Territory government for $1.5 billion in damages.

Williams later did a live cross to ABC TV where she featured one interview of a woman criticising the meeting and suggestions of suing the government.

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But 2GB host Ben Fordham slammed the report and the public broadcaster for omitting conflicting voices and not providing any proof of the “so-called ‘white supremacy’”.

“Their coverage of the meeting was reckless and ruthlessly one-sided,” Fordham said.

“They ignored the issues…And just turned into a fight between black and white.

“And if racist comments were made… what were they? And where's the proof?”

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01 Feb 2023, 6:15 pm

Didn't members of the town hall spew racist language? apparently the vibe was that of "us Vs them".
I think finding a quick solution is impossible. Both sides are reluctant to directly engage with each other.



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04 Feb 2023, 3:50 am

Our glorious unbiased Australian ABC. <extreme sarcasm> :mrgreen:

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ABC issues apology for failing to cover 'full context' of Alice Springs meeting in report that interviewed attendees labelling it a 'disgusting show of white supremacy'

The national broadcaster has issued an apology for an "incomplete" report of an Alice Springs community meeting which included one-sided interviews from attendees who claimed the meeting was a “disgusting show of white supremacy”.
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February 4, 2023 -

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ABC News has issued an apology in the aftermath of backlash received over a report that included one-sided views claiming there were displays of “white supremacy” at an Alice Springs community meeting.

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ABC managing director David Anderson has also been under pressure to apologise for the reporting which did not give an accurate account of the sentiment in the meeting.

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“There was a report that they picked three people to interview and labelled the entire group of 3,500 people as white supremacists,” she said.


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