Katherine Coulthard says the lawlessness is getting to the point where she will be 'leaving town and going back to my country'.
Katherine Coulthard was born and raised in Central Australia. For more than 20 years she has called Alice Springs home. But she says she can no longer stay in the town she once loved.“It’s terrible. The last week I’ve been packing up and leaving town. Just camping out bush as far as possible.”Property damage is up almost 60 per cent, commercial break-ins have risen almost 55 per cent and alcohol-related domestic violence is up almost 54 per cent in the 12 months to November last year.
Ms Coulthard said the return of alcohol to Alice Springs town camps and some Indigenous communities when the Stronger Futures legislation – better known as the Intervention – expired last year had been a disaster.“These young people are lost. To me it’s like there’s no guidance, there’s no family care anymore. Nobody helps anyone.
“There’s a lot of young people standing over elders. There’s a lot of payback which has come into town.” Ms Coulthard said she plans to leave Alice Springs to go and live on homelands near Kulgera, near the South Australian border.
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