Opposition leader Peter Dutton has called on the government to take concrete action to deal with a crime wave that has swept the central Australian city of Alice Springs following pleas from the local mayor for additional law enforcement resources.
“I’ve called for a Royal Commission in relation to the disaster, the tragedy, that’s unfolding in Alice Springs, and I noticed the news this morning in the Northern Territory newspapers around the mayor calling the attorney-general asking for additional resources. I asked this of the prime minister when we were in Parliament before Christmas,” Dutton said in a press conference on Jan. 18.
