Alice Springs was ‘once a tourist mecca’: Peta Credlin

Sky News host Peta Credlin says before the introduction of alcohol restrictions, Alice Springs was “once a tourist mecca”.
“I came here as a young sort of 20-year-old uni student on my way to Darwin and loved it - it’s not the town I recognise, it’s not the town I’ve been back to now dozens of times,” she told Sky News host Caleb Bond.
“Things are pretty grim, and people are desperate right now while they’ve got the attention of the nation that things actually get done, not just talk.”

[@lindahackworthy7114]

I went to Alice as a tourist as a kiwi with Aus friends, in August, this year- we loved NT, however it was scary and confronting a massive fight broke out in Todd mall, the days we were there. I was deeply saddened and as a traveller to many countries it was full on. Please keep the light on this town to support all here, so safe for all to live and come back too as tourists.

[@annadelvey2010]

Just few minutes you set foot, you’ll experience lawlessness here and the Kimberleys (Kununurra WA) kids aren’t afraid of the security guards or the police and of course most grown ups are very entitled, lazy, violent, no sense of self respect, combative, etc etc.

[@lordoftheharvest1]

The NT chief minister needs to resign and leave for good

[@martinjenkins6467]

There whole government needs to go. She only got the job last year. The prick Before her started this. Woke nonsense Has no place in the good old NT. It's the most commonsense true Blue Aussie place in Australia.

[@schweppes59]

yeah she's a Labor loser with no guts..she could have acted 6 months ago but didn't have the balls to call the crisis out for what it is because she would have been labelled a racist..

[@MalevolentProphecies]

You know it’s not limited to Alice Springs. Anecdotally, my own experience is that all over the Territory this type of crime is on the increase. The issue has come to a head in Alice but it’s not limited to one town.

[@trevorweeks7587]

We have the same problems up north here in WA

[@jacquelinemiller5823]

Youth crime is Australia wide.

[@corrion1]

instead of dealing with them like we used too they cannot be touched now, like a protected species

[@stubbycooler3855]

A global “do not travel” warning needs to be issued for Alice Springs. See what happens then

[@piratepete4322]

Yes and also for NW Q, ALL the NT and NW WA. I’ve been and seen. Won’t be going back.

[@stubbycooler3855]

@@piratepete4322 Broome is just as bad but the rest of the country doesn’t hear about it

[@andretorben9995]

If I cant climb the rock I simply wont go. I've also told friends dont bother going now the rock is closed to Australians. Now theres even more reasons to not bother going there.

[@BigGen222]

People aren't allowed to climb our cathedrals, shrines of remembrance and mosques etc. Have some respect.

[@jasonwhite7677]

@@BigGen222 the original tourists were taken up there by local aborigines who loved showing the world Ayer’s rock, then morons like you got involved politicising it and ruined it for everyone. You’re not helping anyone with your pathetic virtue signalling.

[@southern-samurai]

@@BigGen222dumb comparison. It’s a big rock. Not a cathedral. And I reject indigenous claims to anything. They lost the game of civilisation. Reality check.

[@BigGen222]

@@jasonwhite7677 I'm neither politicising nor virtue signalling, in fact the opposite. I have some empathy for the aboriginal people who hold the rock as sacred and don't want a million tourists climbing on it every year but it should have been kept at that. It's going too far now and the proposals made by the virtue signallers are getting ridiculous, and dare I say it, racist towards non indigenous people.

[@jasonwhite7677]

@@BigGen222 I’ve grown up around aborigines and can confirm that they are some of the MOST racist people on earth. They know they receive special treatment and DEMAND MORE of it without any hint of shame. I’m past caring about their never ending victimhood, which is almost entirely self inflicted. They are given every opportunity and unending government support (health, education, employment, housing) spending 30 billion annually on a population of 500,000 (growing rapidly as more fake white aborigines jump on the taxpayer gravy train). When we finally stop pandering to them things will improve overnight. Enough is enough.

[@KozueMegami]

"Vulnerable communities" soft language. No one around the world can be honest anymore about these "communities." (Evolutionary dradends)

[@southern-samurai]

When will people start to admit that not all cultures are equal. Aborigines are responsible for their behaviour. Nobody else.

[@schlookie]

Its the same for the NZ Maori. Their culture has an attitude problem, which leads to poor outcomes for them. However it's not their fault because they were 'colonised'

[@lionel9588]

We are all responsible for our actions. No matter wat happened years ago.we can't live in the past and it's us and our kids that suffer this violence that's going on now.yes I agree aboriginals have got to take responsibility. But that will never happen

[@Dancestar1981]

They always were and always will be so the European hatred needs to stop

[@southern-samurai]

@@Dancestar1981 they weren’t always were. They came from the North. They did not evolve here. And as far as hatred goes, you will find that there is far more hate from them than there is from “Europeans”.

[@Cobber2023]

@@schlookie it’s their fault they are gronks and were cannibals

[@onedayatatime4232]

I am ashamed of my hometown. Alice was once a great town. Yes, there have always been problems, but it only gotten worse. Hopefully, a solution can be found, and Alice can return to its former glory.

[@aidanbutcher8817]

It needs pre Whitlam Australia solutions! End the welfare free for all!

[@HalfLife83]

The solution is giving back the land to the rightful owners.. You incest fuck

[@Nettlewitch]

Long term Alice resident here who now lives 300 km out of town. My daughters both still live and work in town; one of them worked for SARC (NT Sexual Assault Referral Centre) until December when the levels of DV & sexual assault became too much. You ought to interview her - she's been at the coalface. 10 years ago, she was a teacher and could tell you that things were going bad fast. Now, she wants to sell up and leave. I LOVE Alice, it's where my heart and soul are. It breaks my heart. People won't like this but as a circuit breaker we NEED a youth curfew. Residents and business owners need a break from the endless, night-after-night onslaught. Then, deep structural change is needed, starting with a complete overhaul of the NT Land Rights Acts that oversees a system of silent apartheid and prevents Aboriginal people from having the shops, housing, services and employment on communities that they desperately want. Then we need to reinstate bilingual education and enrollment-based funding to community and outstation schools. Finally, a long hard look at the culture of hand-outs without obligation or effort needs nuking.The answers aren't going to be palatable to everyone but just picking on grog and punishing law-abiding residents is NOT the answer.

[@jacquelinemiller5823]

Alice Springs is bad but sadly the youth crime in Australia isn't just in Alice Springs. The police don't bother anymore because they know these offenders will be out the next day doing the same thing. They know that there will be no accountability. They get a slap on the wrist if that, and know that they can continue their criminal behaviour. The courts/magistrates are so lenient. It's the court system that has to change and parents of these kids also need to be held accountable. Where the hell do they think there 10 plus year old kids are at 1am in the morning. I honestly believe that if these parents are held financially eligible for their kids criminal behaviour they will start making sure that these young kids (who are getting younger and younger) are at home. Yes alcohol is a factor but not all youth crime is alcohol based. In places like Texas and other places, if police see a 10yr old walking the streets when they should be at school they pick those kids up and make a visit to the parents. I lived in Yeppoon for 16yrs and would see groups of kids, boys and girls from 8 to 12 walking the streets in the morning. Police see them and carry on driving. So they know that the police are doing nothing, but who can blame them. As I said police arrest these young criminals, they go to court, appear, and walk out laughing that nothing once again has happened to them. I have seen this with my own eyes. I have been in the court where P platers have licence suspended, walk out of court and climb into their car and drive off laughing. See the same mob later sitting in the park or at the beach drinking and once again climb into their cars and continue in their way. Surely their cars need to be confiscated. Last week an e-scooter shot in front of me, no helmet on his way to shops. I followed him, about 15 and 11.30am on Wednesday morning, this kid was off his face, the smell of grog was undeniable. So 10-18yr old not allowed to drive but a 10yr old can get on E scooter which can reach some serious speeds and be on their way. No identification needed to hire an e scooter. WTF . But traffic cops will go after a qualified driver for doing 5ks over limit. I have seen these young E schooner riders with ear phones in their ears listening to music, can't hear nothing and totally oblivious to what is happening around them. God forbid a qualified driver hits one with no helmet, ear phones in, we are then subjected to please explain HOW you hit the kid on the scooter. Where I live now these schoolers are dumped everywhere. If they run out of charge in the street or on side walk that's where they stay. Couldn't even bother picking up the bloody thing.

[@jacquelinemiller5823]

Absolutely. Albos supposed visit to Alice Springs was pathetic, his answer when asked, I am going to talk to some people. That's the problem, more than talking needs to happen. Serious intervention is needed. The services needed by law abiding residents are going to be non existent. Some shops have been broken into 8/10 times. Insurance companies no longer want to insure these businesses, so the owner needs to pay for repairs only to have the shop vandalised 1 week later. No-one can afford this. Not even cameras are detering these offenders. How long do business owners continue like this.

[@francisbrown5469]

Australia has very little Racist issue's compared to Aboriginals . The Aboriginals are quietly dividing so many town's in the North of Australia its becoming increasingly hard to go to some of these towns because of the crime and hostility from Aboriginals ... Now why is this happening ?. Is the Aboriginal situation so out of control no politician wants to sort it out or show any sort of leadership ???

[@chrisyoung9194]

Back in 1968, aboriginal women were often fighting in the streets in Alice....2023 and the fighting continues....billions spent and nothing changed!

[@fabianpatrizio2865]

Not only Alice....but Darwin, Broome, Carnarvon etc.....all hell holes

[@reddog167]

Need anymore reason to vote NO, Australian aboriginal been around a thousand years and invented a stick.

[@bretloyd8097]

Australia WAS a Tourism Mecca. . . Too much focus on houses and holes as an economy in the last decade.

[@VladimirTheInvincible]

There is no such thing as a noble savage. The minute Australians learn that 50 % of their problems will be solved .

[@richardfox6595]

The real star of the show is Albo. Showed up for a 2-minute photo-op and hotfooted back to the tennis in the Socialist Republic of Victoria.

[@reddog167]

Boom, that's the truth right there.

[@fabianpatrizio2865]

typical left wing politician

[@rt9191]

So people haven't been complaining about this issue before albo got in power? Maybe sky news didn't care about it when the libs were in power

[@peternut358]

I was going to the Alice with my family on a holiday in March Unfortunately I won’t put my family in danger and we just canceled.

[@imanenigma3348]

On one hand we say ban alcohol. Next we say, that's discrimination, treating someone differently. The Howard government intervened. Then told to mind their own business. Then we are begged to intervene again and the merry go round just keeps spinning. So, I realise many Aboriginal people would be unemployable, or not want to work. I am happy to pay benefits to for some to live in remote areas , in some sort of semi traditional fashion but no grog!!! Also, we will not be building a first class medical facility or University for you, in the middle of nowhere, not going to happen. So the "gap" will remain as is. Why? Our Aboriginal people refuse to look and learn from their "mob" who have succeeded in modern Australia, or the many, many migrants who understand the need for hard work, value a good education and impart this "common" bloody knowledge onto their children if they want to "improve" or close the gap!!! This, applies to anyone in this country!!!! Further after 50 or 60 thousand years, it may be a big ask after less than 250 years, for them to understand the way forward we have learnt over time. It may just not be in their DNA? Their are also a lot of "white" Australians who may lack that DNA!!!

[@iggyblitz8739]

As Denzel Washington said ' it starts in the home ', a mentality of proper upbringing and taking responsibility for your own life needs to be promoted by clean and sober mentors.

[@JoshDGade]

People are responsible for their actions. Lock the criminals who are doing this up and be done with it. It's not about race. All should be equal in life and punishment.

[@jacquelinemiller5823]

@josh D Gade absolutely

[@returnofthenative]

Good onya Peta, & much love to Jacinta.

[@johneverett6751]

Alice Springs and Ayres Rock used to be tourist attractions lucky for me.. It was in days long gone when the cancel culture and lawlessness weren't part of this great land..Keep cancelling everything and not make any hard decisions even less people will travel there ..true !

[@allanbriggs807]

Alice Springs has had a drinking and theft problem for at least 50 years. I can go back as far as 1975.

[@johneverett6751]

@Allan Briggs ..Yes correct Allan..But when did the rock all of a sudden be unclimable..not in the 70s 80s or 90s that I can remember..??

[@jacquelinemiller5823]

@john Everett yea the cancel culture. It's now a world wide epidemic,

[@MedusasSnakePit]

Uluru

[@gregjo5141]

I've been wondering how crime rate was in Australia I really appreciate this channel. I'll try my best to view on a more regular basis. Thank you Greg Oregon USA

[@micktaylor7641]

Fairly safe here ol mate, good areas and bad areas

[@balung]

You're looking at the Territory mate, it's a whole different kettle of fish here mate, compared to the rest of Australia.

[@indiathylane2158]

This is a lying propaganda channel. I think crime stats can be found in Australia's Bureau Of Statistics. Sky is the only Aussie channel to have been suspended from broadcasting for continued lies.

[@iggyblitz8739]

It depends on where you go, we are a big country, I am in a pretty safe city and state called Adelaide South Australia, come and visit sometime.

[@gregjo5141]

@@iggyblitz8739 I plan on retiring next year and coming over there in 25 for a couple of months and travel the entire country, it's something I've wanted to do for several years actually a few decades. So I'm starting to plan it out now.

[@5ktrailwesternaustralia315]

Same in Kununurra.

[@patryanlrd666]

They closed the biggest tourist attraction, what did they expect! The other walks aren’t worth the detour with fuel prices atm.

[@iandibley8032]

For sure, the lack of tourist dollars will have an impact, We were due to go through Alice in July for a few days and probably would have spent $500 or so, not a chance now going anywhere near Alice Springs, don't want to be robbed or used as punching bag sorry.

[@ronniexx9743]

Thank you Peta, Jacinta & Marion, you need to SHAME Albo & Linda Burney. !!!

[@Tyronepeader]

Nine years of the Federal LNP in power and in all that time poisonous Peta never ever found anything wanting in Coalition policies towards indigenous people, despite the fact that the gap steadily widened in all key indicators. Enough said. 😉😊

[@diannesmith2249]

@@Tyronepeader Labor has been in government since 2016 in the Northern Territory.Albo and his government cancelled the cashless card and the ban on grog.Funny how you overlook that.

[@melhawk1352]

@@Tyronepeader Indigenous communities need to hold their elders to account.

[@LDU2U]

It has been in decline since "They" re-named Ayers Rock.

[@davidhastings7714]

Gee if this is the voice Albo want's us to listen to he has another thing coming

[@Dancestar1981]

Vote no for the voice it’s set on destruction of core Australian values

[@Poorlineforeva]

Another thing coming? LOL.

[@piratepete4322]

Don’t just focus on Alice Springs. Exactly the same problems exist in NW Queensland, right across the top end and NW Western Australia.

[@moopius]

As well as the city suburbs.

[@gingerdad127]

Agreed, my mate just left NW WA and he said the same

[@iggyblitz8739]

​@@moopius Which city ?, not in Adelaide.

[@moopius]

@@iggyblitz8739 Perth ... I had a guy coming through my door with an axe, lovely chap. Took the Police nearly 2 hours to get there because one of his relatives murdered someone down the road that same night.

[@jacquelinemiller5823]

@pirate Pete it is all over Australia sadly. The youth crime is out of control. Crime in general.

[@jimmartin9704]

I lived in Alice in the mid 80's and there was two rules you didn't break Walk down the gap Rd. at night When you left the pub after a few at night DON'T walk through the todd river. There's always been a problem with alcoholism and domestic violence in most town aboriginal people live in Evan Jacinta Price was saying that in 2016, I've seen it when l lived in the Isa, Townsville, Pilbara or the Kimberly. All government on both sides of politics have failed them, banning the piss is only part of the solution

[@lucasroe2878]

ULURUINED .....Once upon a time it was called Ayers Rock and was a premier tourist destination.

[@Xalta_Sailor]

If I can’t climb the rock - I’m going to climb a rock somewhere else.....

[@micktaylor7641]

Peta credlin is hot

[@rt9191]

If your into weirdly positioned eyebrows

[@Geoduck.]

If situations like this continue long enough there is a tipping point of no return. I live near Seattle USA. Extreme leftist local and state government has allowed the Seattle area to become a free for all of narcotics homelessness and crime. The government is spending hundreds of millions of dollars and it's only getting worse. It's clearly reach the point of no return business are closing by the hundreds and major IT companies are moving from the area. For this complex issue there must be consistent consequences for bad actions. Mandatory rehab or extended jail time. Real rehab is expensive but in the long term the best for the bad actors as in many ways they are victims as well.

[@jeffreyflynn2805]

The entire west coast of the US seems to be a cesspit or a swamp as some have called

[@techo61]

Well done Peta! Women everywhere do not need quotas, they need respect and you've got mine.

[@chrisrumble2665]

The morons at KZbin put a Covid statement on this!!! As a current resident of Alice Springs I can only say that things are worse than you think. This town is dying. I know several business people who have left or are preparing to leave and I am considering my options too.

[@strawberriebabieex3]

Great job Peta! from what i saw in the past, it used to be a pretty city. and now it sounds terrible. its important to fix it up.

[@TheRealBobSmith.]

Well done Peta for flying up there. You'll sort it out i reckon, you're a top operator.

[@TheRealBobSmith.]

@@dickdastardly7112 Not convicted, she was not drink driving in my opinion. She may have had a small amount of alcohol on her breath and not been intoxicated. The judge took this into consideration, and she got let off .

[@leeklein8173]

@@TheRealBobSmith. she was drunk Peter Credlin 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@TheRealBobSmith.]

@@leeklein8173 no she wasn't

[@reddog167]

@Dick Dastardly Wasn't that Andrews and his wife?

[@Tyronepeader]

As you know Bob, Alice Springs slid well down hill under the Morrison federal government. Over nine years in power the gap only widened under the Liberals. That fact will easily escape the attention of Sky News but the rest of Australia knows it only too well.

[@gingerdad127]

Good onya Peta! Keep up the good work!!! ✅✅✅🤗🤗🤗🥰🥰🥰

[@bretloyd8097]

"Unfolding". . . . BULL the place has been turning to shit for ten years.

[@darylslee4965]

We were in Alice in April 2019 for a bit over a week, in Uluṟu and Kings canyon for a week. All was ok for the tourists then.

[@iggyblitz8739]

Back in 2014 ( under a local liberal government ) when I lived in Darwin in the NT it wasn't this bad at all, it has some issues but not on this scale , it's currently at a tipping point where people are leaving Alice in droves, this didn't happen then.

[@bretloyd8097]

@@iggyblitz8739 spent months between Darwin and the Alice in 2010 and yes this was going on then. . . . Clearly it's grown but it's been a shithole for years. . . Sadly.

[@user-fk8xi9rb6s]

Since the intervention

[@rhettcorbett3346]

Now its a no go zone. That's a friggen shame. The Govt & Police have got to get on top of this. NOW. It's Labour's fault for lifting the alcohol ban. A total permanent ban off alcohol is needed. It would be a good start.

[@donnastockwell9196]

PETA FOR PRIMINISTER., I VOTE

[@rt9191]

Prepare for a lot of bitter apologises for not reporting the whole story

[@johnmaude5065]

The new alcohol restrictions will do absolutely nothing to fix our issues

[@kingcosworth2643]

I'm really torn on this topic. Feel very strongly against government's telling you what you can and can't do with your body. Australia already goes way past what is proper and there is a law involved somehow for absolutely anything you can think of including sleeping. IT always seems to be the standard response in Australia to just ban something that is actually a symptom instead of actually solving the problem at it's core, the gun ban is an amazing example of that. Also I'm dead against the government treating Aboriginal's differently to every other citizen because you don't create equality and fairness by treating some groups differently, on top of this, the easy welfare causes most of the Aboriginal communities problems, it's the same in the USA with Native Indians and Canada with the native Inuit's. It's absolutely nothing racist, they are doing what anybody does when given a little bit of free money. But I am torn because when the grog is accessible, things truly do go to hell, murders, robberies, DV, SA, it's downright awful. I think cutting the welfare is the real answer, take the grog away initially, but it should be brought back when the employment rate goes up. When people are given free money, but it isn't much, they will do anything not to lose it, you don't get a job etc because 'I'll lose my Centrelink' but then you have 16 hours in the day to occupy, but you don't have enough money to really have any options available to you to fill this time. You also have no purpose, and people need a purpose. Aboriginal's didn't survive in Australia for 100,000yrs acting like this, this is caused by giving the bare minimum to them to survive with zero challenge and meaning, and wonder why they take drugs and drink grog. Drugs is a massive problem all through the West because meaning and challenges have been stripped from people, but most people don't get the easy welfare so they have to work and this saves them to some degree. It is a real double edged sword of nature that as humans we strive to make life easier and to remove challenges and projects to survive, yet we need all those things to be normal balanced human beings.

[@horatio8764]

Agree well said

[@iggyblitz8739]

Well sometimes you do need government to step in, clearly, look at the difference before alcohol bans & proper restrictions and the cashless debit card to now, I am not torn at all, also it wasn't a gun ban completely but a ban on semiautomatic weapons, and I support that completely, it's the reason why we didn't become like the US with mass shootings every week.

[@traviswhitaker9602]

Without action business will simply leave Alice Springs and it will become a ghost town within five years.

[@patriot388]

All alcohol sales should be banned for 12 months to settle things down. The police force should be increased immediately. Possibly curfews introduced until things settle down.

[@alibarber57]

That woulsld send all the lefty bleeding hearts into a tail spin....they would rather watch aboriginal people self destruct than bring in measures to stop the problem

[@karlwood7981]

my mother went there many years ago told me people fornicated in the street

[@seanc.mcnally2118]

GO PETA!

[@bellswebster5775]

The Prime Minister spent 4 hours & 33 minutes at Alice Springs and I don't think he had enough time there to successfully inspect what really is going on. I have seen a few videos of Aboriginal women saying they wanted the alcohol ban to be re-instated as it was before. 14 of the IUC beds in Darwins hospital all have Aboriginal domestic/rape cases since the ban was lifted.

[@chriscurtain1816]

I'm a big fan of Sky News Australia, but having sent a reporter all the way to Alice, why on earth in a 7 minute broadcast can't we see just a little footage of the problem this town is currently facing?

[@melhawk1352]

Peta literally arrived in Alice about an hour prior to this interview. If you stayed to listen, she will be reporting in depth over the next week.

[@indiathylane2158]

@@melhawk1352 Please don't use the term ''in depth'' in the same sentence as ''Peta''.

[@chriscurtain1816]

@@melhawk1352 Well it's nice of her to plan on doing some work over the next week. But in the short time since she arrived she had time to see stuff and describe what she saw. Oh, and she had a film crew with her. Grade C for effort.

[@rt9191]

Remember when she tried to blame south Sudanese Christians for spreading covid during ramadan?

[@rhettcorbett3346]

Matt Cunningham is a Alice Springs local. I think the reason why they don't show the violence is that the camera crew may be attacked.

[@insight1256]

It’s not just Alice Springs, there isn’t a community, town or city in Australia with a large Aboriginal population that doesn’t have the same problems.

[@blake9358]

Aborigines attacked the Ghan train on one occasion

[@windsurferCA55]

They are not responsible for their behavior because they are the real victims. This problem can be solved with more virtue signaling, a sorry day and some white guilt.

[@horatio8764]

We were going to Alice in March for a week but have cancelled due to all this and will probably drop off the part of our trip through the centre of Australia as it will spread

[@iggyblitz8739]

Yeah ok, obviously their tourism industry is getting killed in Alice and the NT with this problem right now, sad.

[@Nettlewitch]

I live at Kings Canyon. I would absolutely NOT drop your trip here. There is no crime out here, and it's safe to visit all the national parks like the West & East Macs.

[@walterbolter4320]

The effective fix would be to assign those convicted of criminal Acts, to be assigned to supervised Community work-gangs, for no financial reward. Then, they will vacate the District at great-speed.

[@stormbear7330]

Covid and the loss to tourism locally and Internationally. Australia's reputation overseas is dirt. Just look at Australian Tennis what shambles. The International community looks at Australia as dystopian, unfriendly and violent, expensive to travel there, expensive for food and accommodation, simply not worth the effort or the flying hours to visit.

[@iggyblitz8739]

What rubbish, it depends on where, international visitors are increasing in many parts of the country, Covid is hardly effecting tourism now, and calling my city Adelaide and South Australia dystopian is ridiculous, one of the best places to live and visit.

[@lionel9588]

And the aboriginals have stuffed it right up.just like other towns

[@chandlerbingbong]

Can we see??

[@roberte5057]

I would never visit there!

[@marliahardy7755]

To hear this news teas my eyes. My neighbours houses 2 of them from left and right have similar issues on alcohol, nearly every week they are yelled each other and breaking each other house, trying to kill each other, and they also broke my car I reported to the police, but police can not do anything because no witnesses, they also throwing stones at my house and broke my windows glass until now I can't replace it, police sometimes came with 4 cars to calming them down when they fight, and this fight has been going on since they moved to my street 5 years ago. I went to housing department few times about this issue, I was thinking housing department has power to move one of them far away to a better place and I am sure people who have issues with each other will not come every week to fight because of distance they have to think before they come to fight. I can't blame governments, their actions is nothing to do with Government. Black and White is so clear we can choose which lives we should have, lives is too short if someone doesn't have any benefits on us or make us unhappy just walk away I am sure no one will get hurt as results.

[@marye5109]

Very possibly something is being put into the alcohol that goes there .

[@grahamvoght9294]

For goodness sake listen to Jacinta Price, she has been portraying the proper issues from the start.

[@paulstaples8089]

Everyone should evacuate the dump and leave them to it. Just keep the local Dan Murphy’s fully stocked and let nature take its course!

[@chrisdebeyer1108]

Peta is marvellous. Hope she becomes PM soon.

[@tucoramirez6058]

It's been a dangerous place since at least the 1980s. This is what happens when you have a soft touch approach.

[@suad01]

The solution is to change the name of the town

[@tadeuszmichaelwlodarczyk3120]

It's not a horror!!JUST GET RID OF THE ALCOHOL,*SIMPLE*. IT'S BEEN DONE BEFORE!!!The footy club good meals✔️✔️eat till you drop.

[@Cobber2023]

Anfony was too busy at the cricket he’s the captain 🤣🤣🤣

[@edwardcatton1047]

never been to the NT!, but, going 2024!, Cyclone Tracy 50th Anniversary!, R.I.P Dad!, You served Australia well!.

[@marcsimmson6719]

We don't need a voice for the people,,,we need a voice within the people ànd community ,, anything proposed should come from community... people in Canberra have no idea of day today life in any where they are so out of touch...

[@indiathylane2158]

Tourism Northern Territory Annual Report 2019-20 said 151,000 tourists visited the Alice in that year. For the year ending September 2022, the figure was 266,000. Assuming the figures are collated the same way, isn't that an increase? Is Peta claiming visitor numbers _declined_ due to drunks and crime?

[@howunacceptibleofme2145]

The plandemic figures

[@iggyblitz8739]

Well the tourist figures are going to drop now in Alice that's for sure, look at the figures in another 3 months and then compare.

[@nev707]

Maybe if the tour groups start dodging Alice Springs, the NT govt may wake up - then maybe not!.

[@hilaryraftery3628]

The Labour party's dream for us all

[@sharongoodsell9341]

Not just Alice all country towns have tripel ed in size , not enough jobs , no investments except real estate profits

[@josh580]

Relocate them trouble makers out of the country.

[@cakesaregood5176]

This seems more like a crisis of morals or the lack of morals.

[@Cobber2023]

Key word once it hasn’t been in decades now.

[@annadelvey2010]

CCTVs are NOT a DETERRENT to these PEOPLE 😢 tbh

[@mtscott]

A certain group shut the rock walk and took over the resort….”we are struggling”🙄 Maybe listen to non-indigenous. Sort of (Voice)^-1 🤣

[@bdawg3942]

Perth isn’t far beyond…..

[@tonidantonio9877]

Who is paying for the grog?

[@diannesmith2249]

Tax payers.

[@icu64]

Once upon a time, freedom was here with god until foreign money face racketeering came.

[@paulaka7]

You can't change culture and DNA,

[@tiger6200]

i asked someone who watches your show and they told me you never brought up alice springs in the past five years under the coalition government this person had so much trouble with breakins to his business he left alice for good 3 years ago.didnt you want to stir the pot when morrison turnbull were pm,s

[@merrick2752]

Between 1788 to 1900 historical records estimate 90% of the Indigenous population was wiped out. Prior to the British establishing the first fleet colony, the Indigenous population were considered to be in good health. Of the remaining population, governments both state and federal set on a course to assimilate those people with the expectation that their race would completely die out. Pushed out by ever increasing pastoral expansion governments moved the remnant clans into camps dislocating them from their traditional country with all the rules of law and rules of land care lost to them. Families shattered by infant removal to church run orphanages, language of their country forbidden. Practice of Culture forbidden. The Belgums in the Congo were brutal, as the French were also, but never has a race of people been so horrifically treated as Indigenous Australians. Never have a race, a culture been so disrespected and looked down upon. We look upon the resulting carnage through the lens of Alice Springs. The world comes to the Alice, in big numbers, they know more than most Australians will ever know about the Arrente cultural beliefs, in a few short days. Because they are interested and engage. There is a referendum approaching, a pitiful small token of acknowledging that maybe government policy hasn't worked out all that well, and perhaps it's time to take our collective boots off the throat.

[@alexanderlee5669]

Brit here I went to Alice last August alone backpacking. I was there for about 3 weeks and I had no idea Alice springs had a reputation. Other tourists kept telling me it was bad but I honestly had no problems with anyone. The aborigines were fine, some people in this bar I went to harassed me for drinks but other than that they were pretty friendly. I was walking around on my own with no hassle. I felt saver there than I do when I go to Liverpool. By all means go it's an interesting place.

[@anthonysutherland4108]

Any information on vandalism/attacks on ABC Alice Springs facilities?🇦🇺

[@jacquelinemiller5823]

PMs gone to Darwin for bit of a break. A break from what. Haven't they just had a long Christmas break

[@lyndreyer7080]

The government's now and the past government's have split the country they where here long before us i grew up with them you treat them equal they are great people stop splitting them and us i they have there culture we have ours we are all the same only for colour thats the way god made us we are turning into racists in our own country we should be ashamed of ourselves we are supposed to be the lucky country

[@iggyblitz8739]

It's not racist to call a spade a spade, that's why nothing gets solved because everyone is too scared to offend, I would suggest listening to Jacinta Price, she's right on the money, yes we are equal but problems also need to be solved and pretending they don't exist doesn't help.

[@imanenigma3348]

I know there is some political mileage by bagging Albo's brief visit, Peta, but really? I think our PM has plenty to do as is and the political point scoring remarks are a classic example of why we have the problem in the first place. NOBODY is offering genuine solutions to this problem WITHOUT putting their political futures first! If we have to be firm and tell our Aboriginal people some hard truths (tough love), to actually make a difference, do it!! Perhaps then and only then, will we make some headway toward closing the "gap" I know it is not a simple fix or situation but I can't help but draw comparisons with parents of adult children, still living at home, dependant of their parents(government in this case) for everything. It's called "enabling" behaviour and certainly does not encourage people to be independent in the world in which they live.

[@Ragnar6000]

Broken hill {also a outback town} does not have this problem!.......could it be the demograhics?

[@max748195]

WTF is he laughing about? What is wrong with these people?

[@petermclaren2665]

I didn't see any Aboriginal campervan owners when I was up there - why is that?

[@sharongoodsell9341]

Really I don't know , smashed up in the paddock

[@davidd1492]

There is already have a fair representation per capita in parliament. But the problem is that mariam and Jacinta don't say what woke albo wants to listen to.

[@RoseWhite99]

😱😱😱

[@stephenhawkins1616]

come on caleb why no talk about excess deaths?

[@lynmay4667]

They had already removed several bus loads of aborigines before you got there.

[@gus8493]

Good luck Peta... Could you findout the current community workers in the affected areas that your visiting... I would imagine these welfare worker should triple in numbers, if'n your going to get anything done right...

[@Super_Mario128]

I am the terror that flaps in the night, I am the mouse that eats all your flip cheese.