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Johannes Leak
In July Michael Murphy, the Northern Territory police commissioner, declared a three-night curfew in Alice Springs after several violent incidents in the town. Murphy was making use of controversial new laws, passed in the Northern Territory Parliament a month earlier. Johannes Leak suggests the curfews are not a long-term solution.
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