It is unlikely Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will return to Alice Springs now the referendum is finished and there is no political traction to be found in the struggling remote community.

His last trip came as a result of nationwide outrage over third-world levels of street violence, domestic abuse, and petty crime that left residents terrified. The behaviour caught on camera depicted a mixture of drug-fuelled, alcohol-emboldened mischief for the sake of it – gangs of individuals who knew there were no consequences for their actions.

This was not about ‘unfair treatment by police’ or retaliatory behaviour for ‘racism’ as inner-city BLM activists often make out. The scenes from Alice Springs revealed a deeply dysfunctional Indigenous community creating its own strife.

Labor shouldered responsibility for the chaos after championing an end to alcohol bans for remote communities as part of their ‘anti-racism’ and ‘human rights’ rebellion from successful Coalition policy.

Reality proved this decision to be a monstrous failure of judgment for which Labor has never apologised.

This week, the Mayor of Alice Springs has come out begging the government for police support, fearing a summer of crime. Alice Springs needs police on the ground to keep residents safe.

‘I think everyone has a right to be anxious after what we were put through last year. We can’t have another summer like we did,’ said Mayor Matt Paterson.

Restoring alcohol restrictions has helped, but teenagers are still running around engaging in anti-social and criminal behaviour, often following the influence of adults.

‘We can’t have services disappearing off our streets as soon as the sun goes down. It’s also about fast-tracking somewhere where these kids can go. They’ve said that they can’t go home because they’re not safe. Well, we need to make sure there is a facility for these kids.’

That won’t happen. Any suggestion of kids being kept away from their parents, no matter how neglectful, will trigger inner-city fainting and accusations of a second Stolen Generation.

Indigenous parents are a big part of the problem and many in remote areas are asking the government to impose penalties on those who take dole money and then fail to look after their kids. If these adults are not working and not looking after their kids, what are they doing? What sort of social system is the taxpayer supporting? According to healthcare workers in the area, some of these families are not only neglectful, they are sexually abusing infants and small children who end up in hospital with unspeakable injuries.

Echoing Senator Price, there are growing calls to audit the remote programs that receive substantial funding but have failed to improve the situation.

As Paterson said, ‘If services providers are getting paid to do a job, they need to do that job, or they should not be funded. There needs to be an audit of these organisations who are receiving government funding to make sure they are doing what they are getting paid from the taxpayer to do.’

Labor’s ideological approach to remote Indigenous lawlessness has been ‘confused’ – at best.

A more cynical eye may accuse the Labor Party of implementing solutions it thinks will trend well in the polls.

During the Black Lives Matter protests, the Australian media was awash with ‘we must close prisons to save Indigenous people’ messaging. The click-bait frenzy was joined by left-leaning politicians who saw the mobs on the street (praising a pretty nasty foreign criminal as some sort of holy figure) and decided to see what sort of political gains could be had.

Going soft on law and order to please a foreign Marxist movement had a devastating impact on remote communities where women and children ultimately lost their lives. The most significant fallout of this virtuous movement was Labor’s decision to end alcohol bans expressly against the wishes of community leaders. In most places, it had to be reversed.

The ‘mean and racist’ public were right. Alcohol bans were keeping women and children safe and helping the men to stay sober long enough to repair their lives.

Labor destroyed 15 years of progress overnight.

‘We were living in what most people would see as a normal town,’ said one resident, after Labor abolished alcohol bans. ‘Now we’re seeing back on the streets, back in the riverbed, back in the scrub, people who’ve come to town who was squatting in Alice drinking to get drunk. We’re seeing women being beaten on the streets in front of our faces. We’re seeing the trauma that was there come back again. People are shocked at what’s happening. It’s unacceptable.’

What do these feel-good approaches – championed by activists who enjoy the security of a functioning criminal justice system complete with prisons – say to those who are attacked? A failure to incarcerate offenders means the establishment of a system of terror on victims.

The ABC has run several puff pieces on defunding the police – although considerably fewer now that the Democrat examples have descended into drug cesspits of crime.

One of these pieces talks about ‘transformative justice’ and ‘alternative pathways’, floating the idea of ‘Aboriginal patrols’ organised by self-funded independent groups separate from police.

Since when did we give vigilantes police powers? Why are we talking about parallel legal systems in a nation that values equality under the law? It sounds like a roundabout way to introduce double standards of behaviour rather than admit remote communities have a problem while activists too often value the feelings of perpetrators rather than the safety of victims.

Alice Springs is asking for help this summer while the Prime Minister is jetting off around the world. Activists are licking their wounds during a week of mourning because they didn’t get an all-powerful racist bureaucracy.

It’s no wonder Indigenous communities voted ‘No’ to the Voice. The activist bureaucracy doesn’t want to listen. Albanese has ears, the question is, will he hear the voice of Alice Springs?