Fresh off those protests, PM Anthony Albanese has another difficult issue on his plate this week… He’ll be in Alice Springs today for the first time in more than a year, about a month after NT Chief Minister Eva Lawler imposed a curfew on the town’s youth after a recent uptick in violent crime. There’s not much detail about what Albanese’s visit will look like, but reports say he’ll be there until Tuesday (paywall). You might remember the latest surge of violence kicked off after a stolen car carrying 9 people crashed, leaving a teenage boy dead… It escalated to a group of 70 people attacking the Todd Tavern in Alice’s CBD on 27 March, before Lawler intervened by declaring a state of emergency. Last week, an 18yo man became the 5th person charged over the crash.