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Alice Springs was hit with another night of chaos on Friday as cars were set alight, homes were burnt down and a TV station was broken into.
Shocking footage posted online shows a car burning brightly with flames soaring into the night sky, while other footage shows several police cars chasing after allegedly stolen vehicles.
Meanwhile, one local said he had lost most of his possessions after a separate fire ripped through his family home, also burning down two other homes and several cars.
The fire, which destroyed properties in a rural area by Alice Springs' airport, is believed to have deliberately lit.
Businessman Darren Clarke, who often calls for greater action on crime in the outback town and has seen his bakery robbed dozens of times, made a passionate plea to Anthony Albanese to crack down on crime in the NT town in a call to Ben Fordham on 2GB.
Businessman Darren Clarke shared footage of the burning car on Facebook on Friday
Shocking footage posted online shows a car burning brightly with flames soaring into the night sky
'We've had another night of total anarchy. Our CBD is full of youths, it's full of drunks. It's out of control. We've had businesses broken into. An indigenous TV station smashed up, a vehicle full of technical gear stolen.
'We've got a car on fire in the K-Mart car park. Another car set on fire in another suburb. When does this stop?
'Albanese, step up to the plate. Start looking after your people or this place is going to burn to the ground. Or you'll have no one living here.
'We've had enough. Prime Minister, govern for everyone. If not, then let someone else do it. This simply isn't good enough anymore.'
One video shows Mr Clarke talking to police at the site of the burned out car in the K-Mart car park.
There, he is warned that he is in a crime scene, to which he replies: 'The whole place is a crime scene.'
Mr Clarke, who also runs the Action for Alice Facebook
