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Andrew Brown and Aaron Bunch

Keep politics out of Alice Springs, minister warns

Alice Springs residents are once again living under a police curfew. (Aaron Bunch/AAP PHOTOS)

Politics needs to be kept out of addressing long-running issues in Alice Springs, says Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney following the town's first night of curfew.

A three-night stay-at-home order was issued for the Northern Territory community after a spate of violent weekend incidents including a brawl involving 80 people and a knife attack on a 42-year-old woman.

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