Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is travelling Alice Springs on Tuesday following calls from local community leaders and the federal opposition for him to visit the crime-plagued town.
Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney and high-profile Aboriginal senator Pat Dodson will join Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Alice Springs on Tuesday following calls from local community leaders and the federal opposition for him to visit the crime-plagued town.
Government sources confirmed Burney, a leading campaigner for the Indigenous Voice to parliament, and Dodson, dubbed the “father of reconciliation” for his lifelong activism, would be with Albanese. However, he said a federal intervention was too crude a response and police could not arrest their way out of the problem. The significant increase in alcohol-related harm in Alice Springs needed to be addressed through dialogue with every community, he said.“I understand that the prime minister is travelling there. I know the chief minister is heading down there this morning as well.
“There are real problems there and I think it’s going to take partnership with the Northern Territory and the federal government to help – and the community, listening to the community to help fix it. But no one underestimates the problem,” he said.“I said to the PM we would support whatever measure the government would take, whether it needed legislation, additional resources, additional money going into the Northern Territory,” he said.
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