Rates of domestic violence assaults in Alice Springs have fallen by over a third since alcohol bans were reintroduced by the Northern Territory government in January. This followed calls from NT community groups over rising youth crime and anti-social behaviour after the expiration of long-term alcohol bans in July 2022. “Over the last three months,…
Indigenous Senator Defends Opposition’s Comments on Widespread Child Abuse in Alice Springs
April 14, 2023
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Indigenous Senator Kerrynne Liddle has defended comments from Opposition Leader Peter Dutton who said a contentious proposal to change Australia’s Constitution would do little to address crime rates in Aboriginal communities like Alice Springs. Speaking on ABC Radio National on April 14, Liddle said while care was needed to avoid politicising the issue, statistics on…
National Broadcaster to Re-Train Journalists on Impartiality After Pressure Over “Inaccurate” Alice Springs Report
February 28, 2023
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Reporters from Australia’s national broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), will undergo impartiality training when covering news about the controversial Indigenous Voice proposal. The move comes after the country’s largest taxpayer-funded media outline faced heavy backlash for its reports on the Alice Springs community meeting in January, which its Ombudsman office has ruled as “impartial”…
Money for Indigenous ‘Voice’ Should Go Directly to Struggling Communities: Former NBA Player
February 27, 2023
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The millions being spent on encouraging Australians to vote to change the Constitution should, instead, be directly spent on helping Indigenous communities, says former NBA player Andrew Bogut. His comments come as reports emerge of Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese personally lobbying the country’s sporting leagues to back the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, which will effectively shrine…
Don’t Be so Fast to Write Off Alcohol Bans as ‘Useless’ and ‘Racist’
February 16, 2023
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Commentary With alcohol bans being reinstated in the Northern Territory, we can expect more discussion about whether they are effective or not. Former West Australian of the Year and Nyamal woman Tracy Westerman has previously stated that authorities are not addressing the root cause of alcohol abuse when speaking of her home state. I agree…
ABC’s Coverage of Alice Springs’ Meeting Inaccurate, Partial: ABC Ombudsman’s Office
February 14, 2023
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The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has violated impartiality and accuracy standards in its radio report on the Alice Springs community meeting, the newly created ABC Ombudsman’s office found. The ABC’s flagship radio program AM on Jan. 31 aired a report in which it accused locals worried about the alcohol-fulled crime wave in the remote community of…
‘Help Me Save the Lives of Those I Love’: Price Calls for Return to Howard-Era Alcohol Ban
February 10, 2023
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The Australian federal government is being called on to enforce intervention-era alcohol restrictions in the Northern Territory with Country Liberal Senator Jacinta Price calling the current ban a “half-baked policy.” Price, an Indigenous senator, sought bipartisan support for her Northern Territory Safe Measures Bill 2023, which will establish a federal and territory government partnership to…
Opposition Leader Urges More Action to Protect Indigenous Children
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has urged further action to protect children in central Australian Indigenous communities following the reintroduction of alcohol bans. The Northern Territory government will bring legislation next week to reinstate dry zones, which communities will be able to opt out of if they choose. To do so, they will require 60 per…
ABC Apologises for Biased Report That Town Meeting on Alice Springs Crime Wave Was ‘Show of White Supremacy’
February 5, 2023
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The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has apologised for its “incomplete” coverage of an Alice Springs town meeting, in which locals worried about escalating crime rates in the community were accused of being “racist.” The partial apology came after the shadow minister for communications revealed she had lodged a formal complaint about the “shockingly biased reporting”…
Release of Alice Springs Report Delayed Until Governments Can Consider the Findings
The release of a snap report by the Central Australian Regional Controller Dorelle Anderson into alcohol restrictions in Central Australia has been postponed until next week. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced the delay on Thursday afternoon via a social media thread on Twitter, in which he explained that he had met with Northern Territory Chief Minister Natasha Fyles…
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