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Dominic Giannini

Pleas for grog ban in crime-stricken Alice Springs

Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price wants alcohol bans brought back in Alice Springs. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

An Indigenous senator has made an impassioned plea for alcohol bans to be reinstated in Alice Springs to tackle a surging crime wave.

Northern Territory senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price told the senate chamber her family had experienced sexual violence, trauma and murder in central Australia because of alcohol.

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