Failure to listen to pleas against lifting alcohol bans in Indigenous communities is proof why the Indigenous Voice in Parliament WON'T work: 'They were warned not to do it'
- Nationals leader David Littleproud says the Voice will fail
- He argued that only practical measures will 'close the gap'
- PM accused of not listening to community over alcohol bans
Nationals leader David Littleproud has accused Anthony Albanese of bringing on the law and order crisis in Alice Springs by not listening to the community claiming it shows why an Indigenous Voice to Parliament will fail.
Mr Littleproud pulled no punches as he said the prime minister and Indigenous Affairs Minister Linda Burney had failed to listen to the Northern Territory's Alice Springs community on the 'foreseen' consequences of lifting Indigenous alcohol sale bans.
'They were warned on the ninth of June by community groups in Alice Springs to the minister saying 'do not remove, the community is not ready',' Mr Littleproud told Sky News on Sunday.
Nationals Leader David Littleproud has laid the blame for the escalating crime situation in Alice Springs squarely at the feet of the Prime Minister and Minister for Indigenous Affairs
'Anthony Albanese wants a Voice? Well he didn't listen before. It took a crisis for him to get on a plane and get out there.'
In response to the scenes of chaos coming out of Alice Springs, Mr Albanese made an impromptu visit on Tuesday.
Alcohol restriction legislation expired in July, two months into Mr Albanese's time as prime minister.
Since the 10-year program - which restricted access to alcohol in a bid to tackle social issues - ended, the Alice Springs region has grappled with skyrocketing crime rates with bottle shops ransacked and youths wielding machetes running amok.
The outbreak of lawlessness at Alice Springs, as illustrated by this brawl outside a supermarket, has become a hot button issue nationally
Mr Littleproud said Mr Albanese's rushed trip, where he spent four hours talking to community and government representatives, showed why the Indigenous Voice to Parliament was the wrong approach.
'You don't need a Voice, you need politicians who do their job and get the bureaucracy to do what you tell them to,' he said.
Mr Littleproud also called on the Albanese government to reintroduce the cashless debit card, which restricts the purchase of alcohol with welfare money.
'Just reimplement what was there, it was working.'
Mr Littleproud said that Indigenous Affairs Minister Linda Burney (pictured) was warned in June not to lift the alcohol bans
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11688065/Alice-Springs-chaos-shows-Indigenous-Voice-Parliament-wont-work-says-David-Littleproud.html
The two-word mantra kids running wild in Australia's most lawless town use when caught by cops - as 'FIFO PM' is mocked over cut and run visit
- Kids running wild in Alice Springs crime spree
- Parents drive kids to crime as they won't go to jail
- If caught they repeat two words to police, 'doli incapax'
- Latin from the Middle Ages meaning kids not culpable
- Locals mocking PM for 'FIFO' visit with entourage
Kids running wild in lawless Alice Springs have an archaic two-word catchphrase they blurt out to police whenever they are caught.
The two words are routinely rolled out by troublemakers to emphasise they are too young to be charged - even if the cops know they're acting criminally on their parents' behalf.
'Doli incapax' - meaning 'incapable of evil' in Latin - is a common law presumption that children aged between 10 and 14 can not be held responsible for crimes as they do not fully appreciate the difference between right and wrong.
Even if they don't know the origin of the words, the young criminals repeating them know that kids under the age of 12 in the Northern Territory cannot be charged.
Alice Springs locals were quick to mock Anthony Albanese as the 'fly-in fly-out' or 'FIFO' PM after his whirlwind visit to the troubled community on Tuesday.
Anthony Albanese is being mocked as the 'fly in fly out' PM after his entourage's visit to troubled Alice Spring lasted only a few hours and managed to skirt around violence and drinking occurring in the town
On Facebook locals mocked the PM's visit and one quoted the John Denver song 'leaving on a jet plane , don't know when I'll be back again'
After the visit lasting just a few hours, Mr Albanese was accused of failing to get any in-depth appreciation of the increasing anarchy on the city's streets.
Crime and lawlessness in the iconic Outback city entered the national spotlight this week amid reports up to 200 children roam the streets at night, breaking into homes and businesses and stealing and burnings cars.
According to videos posted on the Action for Alice Facebook page, the PM's visit coincided with a stabbing in the Coles-Liquorland car park, and open drinking of a 'hand sanitiser cocktail' by a woman in front of children on a main street.
One person posted a picture of the jet stream of the PM's plane, writing 'Albo leaving 5 mins after the press conference', which prompted the response: 'Albo loves his jets. He's never out of them'.
Another joked 'what was the John Denver song ... I'm leaving on a jet plane, don't know when I'll be back again', and one person questioned if 'Albo and the rest of the fly in fly outs' saw the ambulances gathered for an emergency on a town main street.
Others posted 'Did any of them visit business owners in town' and 'word is he was only in town 2 hours then gone'
A distressed mother posted this photo of a woman openly drinking a 'hand sanitiser cocktail' on an Alice Springs visit during the PM's visit wishing her kids could 'unsee' incident
Alice Springs business owner and the whistleblower on the crisis, Darren Clarke, told Daily Mail Australia that saying "doli incapax" is now standard among the hundreds of kids that roam the streets out of control.
'Last week there was a break-in of a house by a 14-year-old with a six-year-old and a five-year-old. It’s out of control,' he said.
'Adults are driving these kids around in cars and the kids get dropped off to go and steal stuff because kids don't go to jail, and if they do get caught by police it's just "doli incapax".'
A senior legal source told Daily Mail Australia the term, simply referred to as 'Doli', means the child is presumed to not have the mental element or 'mens rea' to be guilty or to know what they were doing is seriously morally wrong.
As Mr Albanese and his entourage flew in and out of Alice Springs, people continued to post photos of violence and vandalism in the lawless Outback town
A woman wrangles with another person in the car park of Liquorland/ Coles in Alice Springs during a reported stabbing on Tuesday while the PM and other officials made a flying visit to the town
Alice Springs baker and anti-violence campaigner Darren Clarke told Daily Mail Australia how local kids repeat the archaic term 'doli incapax' to police when they get caught to emphasise that they are too young to be charged
Darren Clarke - who described the PM's visit and the resulting, limited alcohol bans he made as 'a band-aid' - told Daily Mail Australia politicians' had done 'too little too late' and that he thought it was 'too late to save' the children currently running amok.
'This has been their lifestyle for years and years now,' he said, 'it started during Covid, the parents drinking hand sanitiser and mixing it with orange juice.'
Kids in Alice Springs and other cities and town camps in the Northern Territory were now doing the same, as well as some sniffing substances like petrol and glue, and Mr Clarke said methamphetamine was now also available in Alice Springs.
On the same day the PM visited, a mother of young children posted a photo on Action For Alice of a woman in the town's main street at 3.45pm openly drinking hand sanitiser.
The post said, 'kids and I finish up borrowing books from the ASTC library and walk past the couple in the picture.
'My kids tell me “Mum, Mum she’s drinking hand sanitiser”. I look over, sure enough lady squirts hand sanitizer into her water bottle, shakes it, consumes the cocktail.
'The bloke assists her to stand and she staggers away ... just wish my kids could un-see that.'
Mr Clarke's Facebook page attracted many comments in the wake of the PM's visit, with one person posting, 'Keep up the MEDIA attention ALICE residents! You must NOT allow this to be silenced.
'Forget the bloody namby pamby VOICE agenda and sort out the YOUTH issues.
'Alice Springs youth KNOW that they are untouchable, just ask them.
Wearing a football jumper as a mask, this young man tried to break in to Alice Spring's oldest pub, the Todd Tavern last weekend by doing a running jump at the metal shutter.
The metal shutters down at Woolies in Alice Springs where locals are forced to shop behind closed doors as a security measure in the crime-ridden town
An Alice Springs man posted this video of the five children who broke into his Tennant Creek house, where they spent 30 minutes trashing the place before leaving
The owner's security camera caught this person carrying a knife when the kids broke in, unperturbed by the alarm and ate his food and watched Tv before trashing the place
Alice Springs business owners and residents are forced to install extra security measures on doors to prevent break-ins by children armed with weapons including this hatchet (right) left at a crime scene
Other Outback towns such as Tennant Creek are also reeling from a wave of violence and armed break-ins by teenagers since July 17, 2022, when alcohol was available for the first time in many of the Territory's indigenous town camps
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11669001/Two-words-young-criminals-tell-Alice-Springs-cops-Albo-blasted-FIFO-PM.html
Alarming map reveals the shocking fall-out from Alice Springs' horrific youth crime wave
- Youth crime rates have spiked since reintroduction of alcohol
- Around 200 properties up for sale in the town
As youth crime sweeps Alice Springs sales data reveals locals are packing up and leaving town.
A map of recent properties up for sale shows that locals are fed up and fearing for their safety as alcohol-fuelled violence increases and even the mayor says he 'can't blame them'.
Approximately 200 properties are up for sale in the outback town which has a population of 26,000.
there were intervention-era alcohol bans in Aboriginal communities which came to an end in July, with liquor becoming legal
Since that change in July, Alice Springs has seen a surge in crime and violence and locals have had enough.
As youth crime sweeps Alice Springs sales data reveals 200 properties are up for sale as locals are packing up and leaving town
In the past year, property offences have risen by almost 60 per cent, assaults increased by 38 per cent and domestic violence assaults doubled.
Children are running free, breaking into homes, smashing windows and just stirring things up.
'I live in fear. People … have threatened to burn my house down, kill my dogs, to rape me. They're out of control. People come in from the community and yell and scream,' she said.
'You go out and say, 'can you please be quiet' and it escalates to 'You're a racist see-you-next-Tuesday'
'People are closing down businesses and leaving.'
Alice Springs Mayor Matt Paterson urged the government to reintroduce the Stronger Futures Act alcohol bans to try to get on top of the problem.
'Lots of people are just saying that the perception of fear is the reason they're going — they're sick of being broken into, can't afford to continue replacing windows, can't continue to have their businesses broken into,' Mayor Patterson said.
Alice Springs Mayor Matt Paterson urged the government to reintroduce the Stronger Futures Act alcohol bans to try to get on top of the problem
Mayor Patterson understands why there is a mass exodus as he says locals can't stay 'when they're scared to sleep at night'.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11685839/Alice-Springs-locals-leaving-town-moves-fly-fly-youth-crime-running-rampant.html
Lawless gangs roam the streets at night, breaking into shops and fighting each other.
The gangs can number in the hundreds, with many of them children, who do not fear juvenile sentencing if caught, and are often fuelled by alcohol.
There are reports of kids running around with machetes.
In the lawless Outback town where gangs of kids are roaming the streets, breaking into homes and attacking drivers with star pickets - when the cops are called no-one answers
The iconic Outback city of Alice Springs has become a lawless outpost where up to 200 children roam the streets at night, committing crimes such as breaking into homes and stealing cars.
Locals say they're living in fear and forced to hide indoors as children as young as five run riot on the streets.
And when police are called, no-one answers or officers are too busy elsewhere to attend.
Other Outback towns such as Tennant Creek are also reeling from a wave of violence and armed break-ins by teenagers, which many are blaming on Albanese Labor Government's decision to lift bans on alcohol.
Problems were 'immediate' when the Stronger Futures in the Northern Territory Act ceased on July 17, 2022, meaning alcohol was available for the first time in many of the Territory's indigenous town camps.
Kids are drinking alcohol, 'sometimes in the form of hand sanitiser diluted in soft drinks, or consuming deodorant, petrol or glue'.
Youth caught on camera fleeing after breaking into the Red Centre Office Technology premises in Alice Springs
Cars are regularly stolen, broken into and torched in Alice Springs, meaning residents cannot leave their vehicles unattended in the street
This club was broken into at 1am and alcohol was stolen, and when police were called they were 'too busy' to attend the incident
Smashed wall (left) at the indigenous radio station in Alice Springs and back windscreen of a car (right)
Violence in the streets, cars stolen and burnt, children roaming Alice Springs on alcohol and drugs are al caught on the video made by local Darren Clarke who has begged the PM to visit
Local Alice Springs MP Marion Scrymgour (above with Indigenous Affairs Minister Linda Burney) said said the removal of the grog ban had led to a level of violence she had never encountered
there's a really bad level of violence of female on female and particularly under the influence of alcohol.
'I've seen some horrific fights in and around the town area of Alice Springs where women are just drunk and just stomping on (other women's) heads.'
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