Sky News host Rita Panahi says “boneheaded” politicians who allowed ideology to “trump logic and experience” have caused the crime rate to rapidly increase in Alice Springs.
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“The booze bans and cashless debit cards are necessary to save lives; to ensure children are fed and women are not bashed,” she said. “These decisions to end those programs were made despite the strong objections of informed Indigenous voices from Senator Jacinta Price to the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress.
“Last year, in Alice Springs, domestic violence assault was up 53 per cent, alcohol-related assault was up 55 per cent and property damage was up 60 per cent.”
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