Alice Springs residents are mounting class action against the Northern Territory (NT) government as the ongoing wave of youth crime and alcohol-fueled violence continues to plague the town. At a packed town meeting, organiser Garth Thompson announced that the community in Alice Springs was preparing to sue the Northern Territory government for $1.5 billion (US$1.1…

Commentary Things are awfully out of balance when youths can hold a community for ransom or have them living in fear. This is the unfortunate, indeed devastating, social scenario playing itself out in areas of Australia—think the Northern Territory and Queensland in particular. Crime rates are soaring, communities live in fear, and service providers refuse…

Northern Territory (NT) Chief Minister Natasha Fyles says residents could be given a vote on whether to permanently ban alcohol in central Australia amid a soaring crime wave in Alice Springs. “We can’t look at Alice Springs in isolation; we need to look at the broader community,” Fyles told ABC Radio National on Jan. 25. “Do…

Pizza shops, service stations and hardware stores around Alice Springs sell different goods, but share the same story. They’ve all been robbed or ransacked in recent months. David Moore from the BP truck stop said the crime spree was the worst he’d ever seen. The service station was broken into over the weekend and spare…

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, the Minister for Indigenous Affairs Linda Burney, and the Northern Territory’s (NT) Chief Minister Natasha Fyles are set to visit Alice Springs amidst accelerating rates of crime, violence, and lawlessness, which have been labelled as a crisis by the town’s authorities. Federal Minister for Government Services Bill Shorten told Sky News…

Opposition leader Peter Dutton has called on the government to take concrete action to deal with a crime wave that has swept the central Australian city of Alice Springs following pleas from the local mayor for additional law enforcement resources. “I’ve called for a Royal Commission in relation to the disaster, the tragedy, that’s unfolding…

A federal Labor politician for the Northern Territory (NT) wants families to be held accountable for youth crime in Alice Springs. Marion Scrymgour says crime rates in the central Australian city have been rising for a number of years, and action is needed. The Member for Lingiari made the comments in response to a proposed…

Northern Territory (NT) police have launched an operation to tackle property offending and assaults in Alice Springs following a week of increased criminal activity. Operation Thayer, which got underway this week and will run for seven days, saw the deployment of additional police resources across known locations and reported hot spots. Assistant Commissioner for Northern…

The Northern Territory government is in the final stage of acquiring land in Alice Springs on which the National Aboriginal Art Gallery will be built. This is part of a $150 million (US$111 million) precinct, which, with the gallery as its centrepiece, is expected to strengthen the NT’s position as the preferred national destination for…

The mayor of the Northern Territory town of Alice Springs, Matt Paterson, has written a plea for help to around 40 of Australia’s federal ministers, senators, and state members over a crime crisis in a town he says is at breaking point. In a social media post on Friday, Paterson said he’s fed up, business…