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The prime minister's visit to Alice Springs this week has left leaders across the border in WA questioning whether the same national attention would help solve their region's youth crime problem.

The Northern Territory's electoral commission could be enlisted to conduct ballots on returning alcohol bans to remote Indigenous communities, under a plan floated to help deal with escalating violence in Central Australia.

The supposed dimensions of the “crisis” in Alice Springs have been exhaustively portrayed in the media, both nationally and in the Northern Territory. The stories abound: shopfront windows repeatedly broken, groups of young children wandering the streets at night, and defenceless elderly residents struck down during violent robberies of their…

University’s Feminists in Action criticse president William F Tate’s response to the alleged sexual assault of the 19-year-old