Daniel James
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3,372 appearances
84 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 6d ago
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what's it like living in alice springs
It's those gangs that have become infamous here and across the country.
Kids roaming the streets looking for trouble, and if they can't find it, making trouble.
Things really kicked off earlier this year with what's been described as a riot in town.
It started at the Todd Tavern, not too far from where we are now.
Within Alice Springs, nowhere is far away.
This is when the headlines started.
In cities and towns across Australia, we read about chaos and rampages.
One newspaper described the kids here as tiny menaces stuck on a turnstile of trouble.
Police were given extraordinary powers to arrest the violence, to put an end to it.
Like fly-in and fly-out workers, politicians arrived to blame one another for the carnage.
The people of Alice Springs became political footballs in the process.
It came on the back of one of the most divisive debates in the country's history, the referendum on the voice to parliament.
It was yet another time when Aboriginal people were spoken about more than we were spoken to.
It's been 12 months since that debate, and I've come here to the heart of things, Alice Springs, in Bartwa, to hear the voices of people here.
I want to know what happens when the great Australian silence once again shrouds this town, once the carnival of political debate heads down the road, and how all the interventions, big and small, by governments of all persuasions, have led to this moment of chaos.
What I've found is that almost all of it leads back to one thing.
I'm Daniel James, and you're listening to 7am.
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