Sky News host Peta Credlin says she heard first-hand from Alice Springs residents “just how bad” the town’s crime is, as locals plead with the territory and federal governments to “help them save their town”.
She said part of the reason for this is the government has been “focused on a new constitutionally-entrenched Indigenous Voice to the Parliament”.
“It hasn’t been listening to the Indigenous voices in Alice and elsewhere, warning that there’s a worsening disaster in remote Australia,” Ms Credlin said.
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