A Northern Territory Labor MP has labelled rising rates of violence against Aboriginal women as a “national shame” amid a spiralling crime crisis in Central Australia.
The Central Australian town of Alice Springs is currently in the grips of a crime wave – which is within Ms Scrymgour’s electorate of Lingiari – and has seen a sharp rise in alcohol-fuelled violence against women.
Ms Scrymgour condemned the shocking statistics when speaking to Sky News Australia's Matt Cunningham on Thursday. She highlighted her concerns around the lapsing of the Stronger Futures legislation – the laws controlling liquor in Central Australia – in her maiden speech to Parliament last year. Country Liberal Party Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has been a fierce advocate for Indigenous women in Central Australia. Picture: NCA NewsWire
“It is not good enough that the streets of our Northern Territory towns — and other towns across regional Australia — have gangs of children aged from 6 to 16 wandering around with no adult supervision in the early hours of the morning,” she said.
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