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Reward ‘offensive’: Mayor
A reward offered for evidence that Peter Falconio, who disappeared near Barrow Creek in 2001, is alive has been described as “offensive” by Alice Springs Mayor Damien Ryan, reports BBC News. The BBC reported: Mr Falconio, who worked in Kent and was from Huddersfield, was ambushed with his girlfriend Joanne Lees while they were driving along a desert highway between Alice Springs and Tennant Creek in northern Australia. Ms Lees told police she was bound, gagged and bundled into a pick...Read more
Crime levels not new: police commissioner
The Minister for Central Australia says he’s “disappointed” by Northern Territory Police Commissioner John McRoberts’ announcement that he won’t dispatch any more police to Alice Springs. Mr McRoberts has told media that current levels of crime and social dysfunction in Alice Springs are “not new” and have “been around for 30 years.” ABC News reported that Mr McRoberts has asked Alice Springs residents to “have faith” in a mult...Read more
Troublemakers not welcome at Yuendumu either
Yuendumu residents claim reports of another “riot” and a scalping of a young man have been exaggerated, according to ABC News. Current Affairs reporter Tom Nightingale reported a man was in hospital with brutal head injuries after a fight broke out on Saturday morning. But the man’s uncle, Yuendumu resident Harry Nelson, had said that police descriptions of injuries “similar to scalping” were grossly inaccurate. “He wasn’t scalped at all. He was hit by really nasty weapons ...Read more
Misbehavers “not welcome”: police commissioner
Northern Territory Police Commisioner John McRoberts has foreshadowed a crackdown on the parents of truants and warned troublemakers from out bush they are “not welcome in Alice Springs”. The NT Police Commisioner will arrive in Alice Springs this weekend to begin co-ordinating an “all of government response” to issues of crime and social dysfunction in the town at the request of Chief Minister Paul Henderson. The move follows the rape of two European tourists at gunpoint during the week...Read more
Police have arrested a 17-year-old male following the rape of two tourists in Alice Springs yesterday and are still looking for at least two more suspects, reports Gail Liston at ABC Alice Springs. Police say two European women were raped at gunpoint after being disturbed while they were sleeping in their car. They are looking for a car like the one pictured....Read more
Tourism shot
Darwin-based demographer Dean Carson says the tourism industry in Central Australia has been declining since the 1990s and is unlikely to recover as the town moves to a new economic base, reports ABC News Alice Springs. CASA and the Zen of Tourism, Alice Online...Read more
More truancy officers
The Territory Government will employ eight more truancy officers in an attempt to get more Aboriginal children to school . The new positions will be funded out of a new six million dollar education package. Much of the funding will be directed to the Territory’s Every Child Every Day policy, under which the number of truancy officers in Alice Springs had already increased by three this year. Education Minister Chris Burns told the ABC Radio’s Nadine Maloney this morning the investment will b...Read more
Leslie loved Alice, and vice versa
One of Alice’s most well-loved characters and the town’s first and only woman mayor, Leslie Huggins (formerly Leslie Oldfield), has died, aged 71. Leslie came to town in 1968 expecting to stay for 6 months when she got her first job at Connellan Airways. She didn’t return to her home state of Victoria until 1992, after marrying Alan Huggins. That same year she had lost her third election for Mayor to former top cop Andy McNeill, but according to local historian Alex Nelson, had already tak...Read more
Councillors decline committee chair jobs
Four new Alice Springs Council members who swapped preferences as they campaigned on “law and order” issues have refused nominations to serve on committees on the new Council, which had its first meeting last night. ABC News reported that incumbent councillor Brendan Heenan was elected deputy mayor by five votes to four over Steve Brown, one of the so-called “gang of four”, who received the highest number of votes for councillor. Mr Brown also came second in the mayoral v...Read more
Two killed in single vehicle smash
A man and a woman were killed when their car hit a pole and burst into flames in Alice Springs on Saturday night. The Northern Territory News reported the driver of the car had sped away from police after the police had noticed the car going the wrong way around a roundabout and turned on their emergency lights to warn the driver. For safety reasons, the police did not pursue their vehicle when the driver accelerated and received an emergency call a few minutes later saying that the car was in f...Read more
Memo Club: just a memory?
A Territory Opposition member says crime and anti-social behaviour contributed to the demise of Alice Springs’s oldest social club. The Memo Club In Todd Street closed its doors this week after going into voluntary receivership. ABC News reported Country Liberals MLA Adam Giles says crime is so bad in the town that people are too scared to visit pubs and clubs at night. “I think it is a reflection of the current state of both the economy and the situation of law and order in Alice S...Read more
24 cheaper homes
An Alice Springs housing group expects Aboriginal people in jobs to be the likely beneficiaries of its plan to build 24 “affordable homes”in Alice Springs. ABC News has reported that the Central Australian Affordable Housing Company has been granted $4 million for the project . According to the report, the company will use the money to access commercial loans to build 24 properties on four lots, sell or lease them to eligible families, and use the to create more housing. The ABC q...Read more
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- Misbehavers "not welcome": police commissioner
- That famous Whitegate mob again
- CASA and the zen of tourism
- Return of the man from Oodnadatta
- The memories are always there
- More truancy officers
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