The Finocchiaro CLP Government has announced a “Circuit Breaker Program” for Alice Springs in the wake of a surge of violent crimes in the troubled town that it says will address the “root causes” of crime, but the program as described is exactly what Labor announced in April.
Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro has taken the Police Commissioner to Alice Springs to announce the government’s response to the “serious, heinous and escalating violence” that saw a baby and her mother attacked by teen home invaders in the middle of the afternoon, with the baby flown interstate after suffering a fractured skull.
A man has been charged after allegedly verbally abusing and physical threatening a flight attendant before punching him in the face when the plane was about to taxi before take off in Alice Springs, NT Police said.
A 22-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman sleeping in her bed in her Alice Springs home, NT Police said.
A woman in Alice Springs was assaulted in her home by a male youth with a weapon during a break-in, while police are looking for a group who stole a ute from a police compound which was later allegedly used to try and ram a police car, NT Police said.
Independent Alice Springs MLA Robyn Lambley has called on the NT Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee to immediately investigate the rapid and severe deterioration of newly re-sealed roads in the Alice Springs CBD, calling the project an “abject failure”.
The Director of Public Prosecutions has decided not to lay charges against former Barkly Regional Council mayor Jeffrey McLaughlin for sitting on a child while another man abused him, in what he later claimed was a citizen’s arrest, NT Police said.
A reckless driving incident in Alice Springs involving a stolen vehicle colliding with several taxis Thursday night has the NT Police asking for the public’s assistance, with one of the taxi drivers reportedly attacked twice and threatened with an unspecified weapon.
Two brothers have been arrested for fighting in the street in Alice Springs today, with one allegedly “assaulting” the other with an “edged weapon”, NT Police said.
NT Police are investigating after four Alice Springs properties were broken into overnight and are also looking for information relating to a stolen car allegedly used to target a taxi.
An 85-year-old woman was first “bumped” by a member of a group of four adults, and then had her handbag stolen by the same person, in an Alice Springs car park on Friday, NT Police said.
The CLP Government has released a new masterplan for the ANZAC Oval Precinct in Alice Springs, which will see the proposed and long-delayed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Gallery of Australia reduced in size from previous designs to save on costs, with the oval to be reinstated as a rugby field.
