A prominent Alice Springs local has delivered a grim prediction about the future of the central Australian city as the crime crisis showed little sign of abating.
Locals in Alice Springs have seemingly given up on their town recovering from the brutal crime crisis plaguing the central Australian city
Now one local businessman who has been instrumental in raising awareness about the issue has declared he is “seriously running out of hope” for the Northern Territory.– which tracks crime in the central Australian city – told SkyNews.com.au that the situation might be “too far gone to fix”. Mr Clark’s comments came after Alice Springs was listed as one of the world’s 20 most dangerous cities.
“It is seriously bad, especially for this time of the year. It's very cold and we usually get a reprieve, but it's really taken off in the last few weeks.
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