An Alice Springs councillor has revealed what it is really like for children growing up in Alice Springs as he called on Chief Minister Natasha Fyles to 'look at the data' around community crime rates and reinstate alcohol bans.
An Alice Springs councillor has lifted the lid on what it is like for children growing up in Central Australia amid soaring crime and domestic abuse rates.
Alice Springs councillor Michael Liddle conceded the community was"not a happy place" for children to grow up. Picture: Supplied “They’ve got to go to juvenile centres to get any form of education or purpose within their life and structures around eating, saying polite words like thank you sir and all these sorts of things around harmony and better life and better children, better people and that’s not happening,” he said.
The government also pledged $2 million for the Tangentyere Women's Council, $2 million for high visibility police operations and $2 million for extra lighting and street lamps for the area.
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