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.
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".
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has called for Anthony Albanese to visit Alice Springs and for federal government support to be provided to deal with escalating crime in the town. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman Senator Price accused the Northern Territory Labor government of being"soft on crime" and hit out at the move to raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 12.
"We've got a situation also where there has been such changes to the way Aboriginal children are protected because of the stolen generation, this fear of creating a new stolen generation, that Aboriginal kids are left in dysfunctional situations. "I think that what you'll find is that a lot of these kids that are on the streets are kids that... there's attempted reunification," she said.
Alice Springs Mayor Matt Paterson last week called for the army or Australian Federal Police to be sent to Alice Springs, telling Sky News Australia his town was in the grip of a crime crisis. "The fact is the prevalence of child sexual abuse in these communities will condemn, particularly young girls, to a lifetime of problems in relationship formations and keeping a job down, the mental health scarring that goes with it."
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