While crime rates have been steadily rising in Alice Springs, people are desperate for some real action to make my beautiful hometown safe again. But like you’ve heard me say before, Gunner’s only concerns lie in Darwin. South of that, he couldn’t care less. Thankfully, the PM does.
Laws that prevent licenced bars or clubs on remote Indigenous communities reek of imperial, paternalistic attitudes, writes Senator Sam McMahon.
You know what can be alienating for children? Growing up in a household with frequent domestic violence, watching people in your community succumb to drug and alcohol abuse, or maybe being the victim of crime in a rural community that those elected to protect you don’t care about, writes Jacinta Price.
Labor’s federal candidate for Lingiari Marion Scrymgour says she cannot defend the Gunner Government’s handling of the ongoing crime crisis in Alice Springs and that they “have to stand up and respond to this important issue”.
Alice Springs will receive $14 million in federal funds to help combat its ongoing crime crisis, Prime Minister Scott Morrison pledged yesterday, along with $300 million for the NT’s energy industry to investigate clean energy projects. The crime funding announcement was also committed to by federal Labor.
At the federal election on Saturday, May 21, you will have an important vote to decide who governs our country for the next three years. I am seeking your support as your Country Liberal Party candidate for Lingiari.
The CLP has drawn top ballot spot in Lingiari, while the Liberal Democrats have drawn top ballot spot in Solomon after the ballot draw for the 2022 Federal Election was finalised today.
Senator Sam McMahon, who resigned from the CLP earlier this year, will re-contest the upcoming federal election as a Liberal Democrat, she has announced.
