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Australian Police Still Hunting Man Who Escaped Quarantine in Alice Springs

Northern Territory (NT) police are still searching for a man who fled from the Alice Springs Quarantine Facility on Dec. 1. At a press conference on Tuesday, NT Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker said that the absconder, 27-year-old Jeremy MacDonald,  is “known to police, and there’s some other activities underway that we believe is incentivising him…


Jacinta Price to Run for Australian Senate to Push Back on Left Wing ‘Ideology’

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, the deputy mayor of Alice Springs, in central Australia, has announced that she will run for one of the Northern Territory’s two Senate seats in federal Parliament. Price will run for the Country Liberal Party (CLP) against Nationals senator Sam McMahon in a bid for the seat, which will pit her against…


Northern Territory to Give Police More Powers to Curb Youth Crime

Young offenders will be taken into automatic custody if alleged to have breached bail conditions under the Northern Territory’s (NT) crackdown on crime. Police will be granted powers to immediately place electronic monitoring on alleged offenders and breath test children without an adult guardian present under the proposed crackdown. “Crime anywhere at any time is…