Former Labor MP calls on PM to take Alice Springs youth crime problem ‘more seriously’

Former Labor MP Michael Danby has called on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to take the youth crime issue in Alice Springs “more seriously”. The Prime Minister flew to Alice Springs on Monday for the first time in over a year. “What he should do is … go there, unannounced, at midnight, and see what’s happening in the streets with these underaged children and take the issue more seriously,” Mr Danby told Sky News host Andrew Bolt. “I was not a great fan of Tony Abbott when he was Prime Minister, but he took Indigenous issues seriously, and this bloke should lift his game and go there … when the trouble is on, after midnight. “Something has to be done about it.”