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Legal experts, children's commissioner raise concerns over police powers in Alice Springs curfew

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Australia's largest Aboriginal legal service is pushing for more detail on exactly how much power police have in removing children from the streets of Alice Springs. It comes at the end of a dramatic week in the Central Australian town, when riots outside the Todd Tavern and at an Aboriginal town camp led to the Northern Territory government triggering a youth curfew.

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Legal experts and NT children's commissioner raise concerns over police powers in Alice Springs curfew

With a youth curfew now in place in Alice Springs, there are questions over what powers the police will have to keep kids off the streets overnight.

1 month ago·Australia

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RNZ

Legal experts, children's commissioner raise concerns over police powers in Alice Springs curfew

Police can make arrests, but the curfew "doesn't mean we're going to start locking up kids", the commissioner says.

1 month ago·New Zealand

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