Children wandering streets of Alice Springs late at night
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.
Matt Cunningham
Darwin Bureau Chief
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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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.
Bryant Hevesi
January 23, 2023
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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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.
Joseph Huitson
January 24, 2023
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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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Mario Nishikawa, who runs security business Territory Guard, said children in the town 'were often left to fend to their own devices'.
Matt Cunningham
Darwin Bureau Chief
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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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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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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.
Tyrone Clarke
January 25,
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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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
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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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.
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?
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?
In the case of aboriginal health and wellbeing labour have been just as bad at handling indigenous health. So no argument there.
More unbiased reporting from the ABC. <extreme sarcasm>
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.
Tyrone Clarke
February 1, 2023
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
“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.
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
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.
“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.
“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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Our glorious unbiased Australian ABC. <extreme sarcasm>
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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