In Alice Springs, it’s one week since a curfew was imposed on the town’s young residents following a riot and escalating violence. 

But it’s a stop-gap measure, with the troubles in town much bigger and the solutions to rampant crime and intergenerational disadvantage far from clear. 

Today, reporter Lee Robinson in the ABC’s Alice Springs bureau on the cycles of violence in the Northern Territory.

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Lee Robinson, ABC Alice Springs reporter