Alice Springs problems ‘a long time in the making’, Linda Burney says after first night of curfew

Three-night stay-at-home order issued for town after weekend violence, including a brawl involving 80 people

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Politics needs to be kept out of addressing long-running issues in Alice Springs, the minister for Indigenous Australians, Linda Burney said, following the town’s first night of curfew.

A three-night stay-at-home order was issued for the Northern Territory community after a spate of violent weekend incidents including a brawl involving 80 people and a knife attack on a 42-year-old woman.