Anthony Albanese may have only been in Alice Springs for a few hours, but the reality of the town's problems have been all too apparent to local residents and community leaders, who have spent months desperately calling for something to change.
The Howard government intervention-era laws were then replaced by the so-called Stronger Futures legislation in 2012, which continued the alcohol bans and increased penalties.
Marion Scymgour says it was dangerous to let federal alcohol ban laws lapse without protective measures. “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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