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The 2024 Alice Springs curfews were a series of curfews enforced in Alice Springs, first from 27 March to 16 April, and secondly from 8 July to 10 July. [1] The first curfew was announced by the Northern Territory Government after a string of violent attacks were occurring after-hours. The Country-Liberal opposition supported the curfews. [2]
Australia's Northern Territory on Wednesday imposed a two-week youth curfew in the tourist town of Alice Springs, a day after a mass brawl involving 150 people, many of them armed with weapons.
Crime is more prevalent in Alice Springs, Katherine and Tennant Creek than in Darwin and Palmerston, despite the latter two being the first and second most populated cities in the Northern Territory, respectively. Alice Springs and Tennant Creek have been ranked as some of the most dangerous places in the world to live, both with high homicide ...
Alice Springs (Eastern Arrernte: Mparntwe [3]) is a town in the Northern Territory, Australia; it is the third-largest settlement after Darwin and Palmerston.The name Alice Springs was given by surveyor William Whitfield Mills after Alice, Lady Todd (née Alice Gillam Bell), wife of the telegraph pioneer Sir Charles Todd.
Juvenile detention is mostly operated through two facilities - the Alice Springs Juvenile Holding Centre in Alice Springs, and the Don Dale Juvenile Detention Centre in eastern Darwin. These had previously been administered by the Department of Correctional Services. A juvenile is a child between the age of 10 and 17.
Charles Arnold Walker, later known as Kumanjayi Walker, was born on 13 October [6] 2000 in Alice Springs to a Luritja woman. His mother drank heavily during the pregnancy, [7] and his family believed he had fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. [8] She gave up Walker to the Alice Springs hospital when he was seven months old.
15 November 1972 – Ansett Airlines Flight 232 – Ansett Airlines flight 232 from Adelaide to Alice Springs was hijacked with 28 passengers and a crew of 4 aboard. A gun battle followed at Alice Springs Airport where the hijacker, Miloslav Hrabinec, shot himself.
An active-duty Marine was recently arrested after Google searches led Florida investigators to suspect he murdered a reality TV star and dumped her body in an Alabama pond. Willie Ellington, 20 ...