Sky News host Peta Credlin says before the introduction of alcohol restrictions, Alice Springs was “once a tourist mecca”.
“I came here as a young sort of 20-year-old uni student on my way to Darwin and loved it – it’s not the town I recognise, it’s not the town I’ve been back to now dozens of times,” she told Sky News host Caleb Bond.
“Things are pretty grim, and people are desperate right now while they’ve got the attention of the nation that things actually get done, not just talk.”
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