Alice Springs

A two-week trial of alcohol purchase limits has begun, as liquor retailers try to mitigate anti-social behaviour.

There are calls for alcohol bans to be brought back in Alice Springs to curb a "crime pandemic".

“I think a lot of this is also boredom. “It’s just absolute mayhem here. “They’re in search for alcohol and that’s why they’re breaking into houses, breaking into businesses.”

Alice Springs needs the resources to be able to put kids' safety first and remove them from the streets, Alice Springs mayor Matt Paterson says.

Medical experts say crime and antisocial behaviours are being driven by increased access to alcohol, while Labor MP calls for restrictions on alcohol sales.

Police are satisfied that the actions of this licensee constitute an ongoing threat to public safety in the area.” It targeted and disempowered Aboriginal Territorians and entrenched disadvantage, rather than improve it,” she said. “What we’re talking about is an additional form of regulation that was highly effective. Dutton also said the issue was beyond the resources of the NT Government with the Fyles government strongly rejecting the comments in a statement to Guardian Australia. “We were living in what most people would see as a normal town. Now we’re seeing back on the streets, back in the riverbed, back in the scrub people who’ve come to town who was squatting in Alice drinking to get drunk,” he said.

Federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says the government needs to be pouring more resources into dealing with escalating crime rates in the Central ...

Peter Burnheim from the Association of Alcohol and Other Drug Agencies NT said the NT government had done "a lot in the supply reduction space" with little result. In response, a spokeswoman for the federal government said reports of increasing crime rates were "concerning". Mr Dutton, who visited Alice Springs in December, said he believed the crisis was "beyond the resources of the Northern Territory government". "If the level of violence, of crime, of sexual assault, of domestic and family violence was occurring in Brisbane or in Melbourne or in Hobart or in Sydney, there would be outrage." There was also a 55 per cent increase in commercial break-ins and 59 per cent increase in reports of property damage over the same period. - The Albanese government is under pressure to take action to address spiralling rates of crime in Alice Springs

Alice Springs Mayor Matt Paterson says the level of crime in the town is “unbelievable” with people being too scared to sleep in their own homes.

Former deputy NT chief minister Marion Scrygmour has laid blame on the NT government for not acting after the federal alcohol bans expired mid-last year.

The shadow minister for Indigenous Australians, Julian Leeser, said people he’d have expected to be likely to support the referendum were cautious and concerned. A Saturday Telegraph YouGov poll, done in NSW, found nearly a quarter (24%) of people undecided about the Voice. The Indigenous presence in this country will forever be associated with protest”, rather than reconciliation being achieved. Detail was a matter for legislation, not for the constitution. Scrymgour said she “absolutely” backed the Voice. Opposition leader Peter Dutton said the prime minister should go to Alice Springs “tomorrow”.

The prime minister will visit Alice Springs with growing concerns over youth violence and anti-social behaviour one of...

We cannot arrest our way ahead of this." "That causes part of the problem and certainly lifts community apprehension when they see so many people already on the way to intoxication," he said. "It will be tackling the root causes of what's causing the heartache and the distress," he told Sky News on Tuesday.

The prime minister will visit Alice Springs amid growing concerns over youth violence and anti-social behaviour, which one...

We cannot arrest our way ahead of this." "That causes part of the problem and certainly lifts community apprehension when they see so many people already on the way to intoxication," he said. "It will be tackling the root causes of what's causing the heartache and the distress," he told Sky News on Tuesday.

Federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton wants the Prime Minister to join him on a visit to Alice Springs as early as tomorrow. GUEST: Michael Liddle, Alice ...

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We cannot arrest our way ahead of this." "That causes part of the problem and certainly lifts community apprehension when they see so many people already on the way to intoxication," he said. "It will be tackling the root causes of what's causing the heartache and the distress," he told Sky News on Tuesday.

Northern Territory police commissioner Jamie Chalker says he expects Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to visit Alice Springs today to speak with community ...

at the moment it’s all open slather.” Opposition Leader Peter Dutton told Nine he was shocked when he visited the city in October. “I do make the point that Anthony Albanese has visited all over Australia, and he doesn’t go missing. But no one underestimates the problem.” “I understand that the Prime Minister is travelling there. I know the Chief Minister [Natasha Fyles] is heading down there this morning as well.

NDIS and Government Services Minister Bill Shorten says the crime issues in Alice Springs "concern everyone" but no one “underestimates the problem”.

“My sources are telling me that the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will be here in Alice Springs today,” says Sky News Northern Australia correspondent Matt ...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will visit crime-ridden outback town Alice Springs for the first time since he was elected.

'To the families of these children - I would like you to talk with them. in restoring law and order so our towns and communities are safe'. after a week of screaming, fighting and no police attendance when calling 000'. We join the long list of victims in this town.' 'Listen to what they see in their homes. I was fearing they will notice my car n do some damage later on or follow me. Smashed wall (left) at the indigenous radio station in Alice Springs and back windscreen of a car (right) The post referred to the fact that the Northern Territory Police Minister Kate Wordern and NT Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker had flown in to Alice Springs to launch a crime blitz as a result of media pressure. 'They were still there in front of Pizza hut... ‘These kids are not in safe, there’s alcohol being drunk in the town camps, there’s blood on the walls at home, kids see people being hurt and the kids are being raped and abused. 'All the violence and abuse that happened to children in the Northern Territory on remote communities, in homes in this town, the violence on our streets. A female on a street in the middle of Alice Springs wielding a metal pole is caught on camera after reports of a person attacking cars opposite McDonalds with what appeared to be a star picket

Anthony Albanese will join Northern Territory Chief Minister Natasha Fyles on the trip, after days of pressure from the federal opposition and national ...

"You cannot arrest your way out of these social problems … "They need to do something about availability and reducing the supply alcohol in this town." He said a "broader conversation" was needed about the factors behind the population shift and levels of crime and alcohol addiction. Figures released last week by NT Police show a 43 per cent increase in assaults in Alice Springs over the past year, including a 53 per cent increase in alcohol-related assaults. - Calls for the federal police or defence force to be sent in have been dismissed by the NT Police Commissioner Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will fly into Alice Springs today after days of pressure from the federal opposition and national media over crime and alcohol-fuelled violence in the town.