die " ach so freundlichen Ureinwohner und ein zu liberales Strafrecht " haben es geschafft Alice Springs zu einer weltweiten Hochburg der Gewalt und Messerstechereien verkommen zu lassen .
Down like Alice the meltdown of a tourism mecca
IT is the gateway to one of Australia's most famous tourist icons, Uluru, a red-centre oasis that is marketed as a cosmopolitan, urban slice of the outback. But Alice Springs is in meltdown, its escalating social unrest and entrenched dysfunction on display for international tourists to see in the middle of the town's mall.
The safety warnings on backpacker forums are becoming increasingly hysterical; letters published in the town's local newspaper beg for authorities to restore order. T-shirts are on sale with a slogan that is no joke: Alice Springs - Stabbing Capital of the World.
Mounted police patrol the Todd Mall; the Alice Springs town council has resorted to hiring private security guards to patrol the town at a cost of $5000 a week to ratepayers.
The town's acting mayor has called for riot police to respond as they would to a national disaster; one local member of parliament has resorted to offering any young woman she sees walking in the town after dark a lift in her car.
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