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NT government ministers defend response to youth crime wave in wake of recent Alice Springs incident

Three of the Northern Territory’s top ministers say they’re doing all they can to stamp out an escalating wave of youth crime across the jurisdiction, days after another incident in the outback township of Alice Springs. 

There have been at least three separate youth crime sprees in the territory over the past fortnight, with police cars rammed and pedestrians endangered by allegedly stolen vehicles being driven dangerously through town.

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