Alice Springs youth crime: what’s really going on? | Paint it Blak with Emma Garlett
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- After a lot of requests to cover the crime happening in Alice Springs, Emma takes a look into the crisis gripping the town at the moment, plus why current interventions aren’t working. Subscribe | thewe.st/PaintItBlak
She also looks into the crime crisis in WA which hasn’t got as much attention.
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Funny how these "community lead" approaches or "elders' knowledge" never fix anything.
Where are the parents??? I feel people keep giving these parents free gold passes ...
The elders are always the drunkest - an Alice Spring resident 23 yrs.
First 15 seconds "its not bad kids doing bad things" 😂😂😂
How about personal responsibility and accountability? It's rubbish to keep putting this stuff on anyonevbut the parents and the individuals. This type of bs is why they have no personal responsibility. They should have the right to purchase alcohol. They should be responsible enough to get off it if it's a problem. Taking the children away from damaging home environments is okay.
If they know how to solve the problems, why don't they solve the problems?
I value your research into the matter and I agreed with you up until you mentioned not taking the kids away from an unsafe environment. I know it's not ideal, of course we want to keep the kids with their family, and in some cases it might be better. And we know taking kids away from their abusive or neglective parents is not a solution, it seems they lose alot, a sense of place and connection to their family. But we cannot ignore the abuse that is occurring at home for these kids. You cannot allow child to remain at home where they are immediate danger of abuse or/sexual violence. There are so many reports and cases there are of sexual abuse committed by their own families and community in the NT - im not sure what its like in WA. Its absolutely horrific at what ages this abuse occurs and how. There is so many of them, it's heartbreaking.
You cannot wait for parents to sort themselves out, which could take years, action needs to be taken immediately for children's safety. The reason these kids have not been taken into care which would happen if they were not indigenous, is this notion that another stolen generation will occur - its ridiculous because we are putting that fear infront of the interest of the children. If you had a child come up to you and tell you what happened to them, and knowing when they go home, that whatever it was will happen again, how can you allow the child go back to that?
The stolen generation was wrong and should never have happened. But this is not what this is.
The problem is who will take these children and give them stability? There is no system in Australia that will. That system is broken too. A lot of abuse takes place in out of own family care and we keep hearing about it. Family abuse takes place all over Australia and in some very middle class families who have better resources to cover it up. It is what you can’t see that is more of a threat. Giving some of these kids a safe place to go is a start. Complete removal is another story all together. These kids have rights and it is time our system recognised that.
"We should be listening to the solutions which come from the community and the community leaders themselves. Only they know the issues they face and how to solve them." You would think they would know how to solve them, wouldn't you? That sounds like common sense. But the indigenous community leaders (in Alice Springs) haven't solved their own anti social behaviour issues, have they? Nobody is stopping them. They have had many, many years to demonstrate what they can do. But they have failed.
I can only draw the conclusion that the leaders must be the main perpetrators. That explains why the issues are intractable. When a community is incapable of solving its own problems the government has to step in. This is embarrassing and very unfortunate.
I'm not qualified to say what the government and the police have to do to protect the general population. I don't know why DV and child sexual assault is such a huge problem with indigenous males. But it is. I know this for a fact from my life's work with victims of historical child sex abuse. Intervention for child protection is the last resort, but it has to be done.
Where there is Emotional, Alchocol and Sexual Abuse and not dealt with in a Rehab , counseling for Families to learn how to be responsible and safe in a Family environment it is always going to spiral out of control. Education is always a good sign of changes if you work as a Team for the kids. Most of the kids are violent to protect themselves for the traumas that is not getting addressed and the Trust level towards Adults, Parents and Family members is almost Zero. Slowly start building Trust as most Children have been betrayed and broken. All these children Black and White are the product of many generations of recycled Abuse. Start finding Answers and Solutions. Start with Morals. God Bless. 🇦🇺🇷🇸
What if Tribal law was to be allowed and that the elders are the ones to make the decisions,Do you think that could help,also ban alcohol.
Nothing will change until it's start costing them money,, and making parents pay
The parents are last gen street kids that have no money or skills to deal with this and the ladder to a better life has had the rungs removed.
Sadly, this is a world-wide phenomenon - as the evidence speaks. Fatherless homes. No boundaries. Their behaviour - letters from desperate young ones spinning out of control! Alcohol just a symptom of "lostness"! Young people are secure within set boundaries, values, standards - and discipline. This assures love and attention and teaches respect, dignity and community genetosity of service and participation. No. Alcohol is the scapegoat! It's far deeper than that.
Thanks heaps, this has really helped me understand what's going on. Hope the community gets consulted and on track for a resolution
Ban all alcohol 🙏
Education maybe
Crime is bad , you don't take what's not yours even if you see something sitting on the side of the road you don't take it . If kid's have nothing to do because there bord tell them to educate there young mates not to steal . Why would anybody want to live like American's because that's what I'm seeing. What the town needs is its own towns people looking after there own town and watch out for the towns people that live there . Be one and don't be them and us like the government want you to be .
Emma, thanks for bringing the Carnarvon situation to peoples attention.
Consulting the community was always a no brainer. John Howard’s policies were the worst and compounded the problems and created wide spread poverty with the enforced Basics card. When it comes to problems in certain areas you find it is a small group who egg everyone on particularly with youth. If you don’t specifically target that group they infect everyone else. I would lay hold of those brats and give them some responsible leadership training and use their skills to address and fix the destruction they bought on the community. I would consult and let them come up with the solutions. They would have no reason to say no and if they did you kick arse and do what you must. Disempowerment sets a very bad example and no one can respect that.
I'm a native Australian full blooded from both sides, used to roam the streets of Alice Springs and Tennant Creek, give us that $3.10 billion so we can get back the old arcade games, pool tables and discos on Fridays and Saturdays nights till 11pm, then you will see changes....
You need to factor in our current Postmodern Post-Christian day. Keep in mind that Modernity precedes Postmodernity. These are two completely different ways of thinking about ourselves and our world. Postmodernity by nature seeks to erase all memory of Modernity. They may not tear down statues, but they will establish a new moral order.
The Aboriginal people are the most beautiful people on Earth. They lived in harmony with the land for forty to seventy THOUSAND years. There is a whirlpool of dysfunction that hums in their limbs. It is a longing for the grasslands, the mountain ranges, the river, the pristine oceans, the special corroboree and the big turtle. This whirlpool comes and goes quickly. Yes, it is NOT bad people doing bad things.There it is. Discernment or real seeing avoids prolonged intervention and unnecessary punitive prison measures. Racism is a need for education.This allows for police, politicians and those facilities that are assisting the Aboriginal people to understand with nurturance especially in Aboriginal teenagers. Teenage hood is difficult generally speaking. It is a wonder any parents survive it. Parents need support. Aboriginal people have a completely different reaction to alcohol. They have been eating berries. Alcohol affects them in a completely different way. Aboriginal people are allergic to alcohol. Aboriginal people need their own Law.