Jacinta Price slams Prime Minister Anthony Albanese over Alice Springs war zone trends now
Senator Jacinta Price has accused Anthony Albanese of regularly flying overseas to support 'other nations in need' but ignoring 'the war zone in the heart' within his own country as Alice Springs descends into lawlessness.
In a scathing open letter and social media post, the Northern Territory Senator called on the Prime Minister to reintroduce alcohol bans for Indigenous Territorians claiming Labor's lifting of them had caused 'absolute chaos'.
In a Facebook message the Country Liberal Party Senator said all that Territorians wanted was to 'sleep safely in their bed', as Mr Albanese 'no doubt' does.
Indigenous Senator Jacinta Price has accused Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of being quick to fly overseas and help other nations while ignoring the 'chaos' in the Northern Territory
Senator Price has published on social media an open letter to Mr Albanese demanding immediate action to stop the chaos in the Northern Territory
'Territorians want to feel safe to go shopping in broad daylight, we want to feel safe knowing it isn’t likely someone is going to attempt to break into our homes wielding a machete,' Senator Price wrote.
'And most of all we want the children on our streets to be living lives free of violence and sexual abuse.'
Senator Price accused the Prime Minister of saying he wanted to 'listen to indigenous voices' but 'we are being completely ignored and left to suffer in alcohol-fuelled violence and abuse'.
Ms Price said Mr Albanese was not even listening to his 'own female Aboriginal Member for Lingiari'.
Mr Albanese (pictured right), here seen with Indonesian President Joko Widodo (pictured left) and his wife Iriana Joko Widodo during November's G20 Summit meeting in Indonesia, has made the sudden decision to fly to the Northern Territory
Indigenous Labour MP Marion Scrymgour, who represents the NT seat in federal parliament, said on Monday the level the level of violence in her constituency was undermining the campaign to establish an Indigenous Voice to parliament.
'I think the Voice couldn‘t be further from people’s view up here because people are under siege in their own home,' she told Melbourne radio station 3AW on Monday.
'So they’ve gone to the opposite thing of 'well, why should we support the Voice if we can’t even get police to protect me while I’m sleeping in my own home?'.'
Wearing a football jumper as a mask, this young man tried to break in to Alice Springs' oldest pub, the Todd Tavern, last weekend by doing a running jump at the metal shutter.
Senator Price claimed she had emailed the prime minister about the situation in her hometown of Alice Springs but had been told his inbox was full, so she had decided to tag him on social media instead.
In her letter addressed directly to Mr Albanese, Senator Price said she had been contacted by multiple businesses, organisations and people who had been victims of crime in the central Northern
