The bulk of the media has given Prime Minister Anthony Albanese a “pass” on his Australian Open attendance amid the Alice Springs crime crisis, says Sky News host Rita Panahi.
“We saw the meltdown when ScoMo spent a week with his family in Hawaii when we had the bushfires happening.
“Here we have a crisis that is actually of government policy – this is territory and federal-level Labor policy that has helped see this mayhem in the NT.”
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