In Mount Isa, the town debate is whether it is better to leave your car unlocked so you don't get a smashed window, or lock it up and risk the insurance excess.
Father Mick Locock, who has been working in the community since 1993, said agencies and community leaders needed to stop"buck-passing"."Understanding those underlying issues is important, and I don't know how many people understand them truly.
"They [agencies and leaders] need to be calling people together and saying, 'first of all, what is the issue, and how can we work on it', instead of buck-passing."They said they awoke at midnight last Thursday when police called to say their car had been spotted being driven around town."I didn't go back to sleep.
"I went outside and padlocked the gates shut, and two hours later I heard a big crash and realised they had driven our first car through the gates, totally ripping them out, and then they stole the other car." After last week's crime spree, six teenagers, aged 13 to 16, were arrested and charged with a total of 61 offences including theft and burglary.
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