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Begging people to realise the problems in Alice Springs didn’t start a year ago, or 3 years ago. This is the latest iteration in a conversation that has been front and centre for decades.

Here’s a few things that were going on back in 2011. A thread.

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Opposition leader Tony Abbott called for an intervention into child abuse in Alice Springs and conservatives used the towns problems as a political tool. Crime was on the rise. Kids in the street.

Sound familiar?
“Action for Alice” was already an established local action group which in 2010 made a bunch of ads targeting NT politicians, which were eventually pulled from air for overt racism. These ads are still up on a YouTube page called “AliceinCrisis” started in February 2011.
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