Victims of child sexual assault and domestic violence continue to stack up every day in Alice Springs while Territory Labor delays reinstatement of the grog ban.
Shadow Minister for Youth and Territory Families Joshua Burgoyne said the government’s own crime figures showed a 67% increase in reports of children being harmed the week after the grog ban was lifted.
“Every day in Alice Springs a child sexual assault is reported. Every day in Alice Springs, police respond to 25 cases of domestic violence,” Mr Burgoyne said.
“That is the tragic human cost of the Fyles government refusing to admit they got it horribly wrong.
“Now Natasha Fyles has delayed the inevitable backflip for another week and every day of that week there will be more victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, assault, and property crime.”
Mr Burgoyne said the urgency of the crisis was understood by everyone except Natasha Fyles.
“The Northern Territory Regional Controller Dorelle Anderson was given just one week to produce the report but now they’re telling us it will take a week to read it,” he said.
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