'We can't continue to live the way that we're living,' he said. 9News
Mayor Matt Paterson said the high attendance - about 10 per cent of the Northern Territory town's population - indicated locals were feeling like prisoners in their own homes.Alice Springs Mayor Matt Paterson says the town's youth crisis must be addressed.Prime Minister Anthony AlbaneseBut Paterson said alcohol was just one of the problems.
"There is so much anti-social behaviour and domestic violence going on in our community that, you know, it really has to be on a national stage," he said. "I mean, we are seeing people walking down the street in broad daylight with machetes, knives, with all sorts of weapons."Fed-up Alice Springs locals flocked to a crisis meeting to discuss a crime wave plaguing the outback town.
As new alcohol restrictions hit Alice Springs to combat a crime wave, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is not ruling out banning all liquor. Paterson said the problems had been ongoing for years, and that he had even written to former prime minister Scott Morrison about the issues in Alice Springs in January last year."Our health service and system is just about at breaking point because of the amount of crime and anti-social behaviour and all other things that go with that."
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