ANALYSIS: Anthony Albanese is visiting Alice Springs, but will anything change?
And yet they have been for decades, by all levels of governments and both sides of politics, except for when it is politically convenient.
Domestic and alcohol-fuelled violence is at epidemic levels. It occurs on the street outside the front of my daughter's bedroom a couple of times a week.Residents of all skin colours are crying out for real solutions, and hoping that this latest prime ministerial visit will result in quantifiable change.In 2007, facing an election and behind in the polls, former prime minister John Howard sent the army into remote communities around Central Australia.
Now, those laws have expired and it's a free-for-all, all while the Northern Territory Labor Government waged an ideologicalData from NT Police shows the number of domestic violence assaults in Alice Springs has spiked dramatically since the laws expired last year.
But for others, the intervention will always be about a loss of control for Indigenous people over their own lives, a stripping of their power and giving it to a faceless bureaucrat.Can politics solve Indigenous disadvantage? The root causes of social dysfunction in Alice Springs are incredibly complex, of the type that modern Australian politics seems unable to solve.Most of the kids who are on the streets in Alice Springs were born behind the eight-ball.
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