NT federal Labor MP says families need to be more accountable for youth crime

State proposal to take unsupervised children off Alice Springs streets a Band-Aid solution' that will fail, Marion Scrymgour says

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Federal Labor MP Marion Scrymgour says a Northern Territory government plan to take unsupervised children off the streets at night is putting a Band-Aid on the situation" and she is calling for traditional owners to show leadership on the issue".

Scrymgour has raised concerns about the proposal in which children undertaking risky" behaviour in Alice Springs at night would be taken into custody for assessment, and removed from their families if they are found to be continuously unsupervised.

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