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Donna Demaio: Australia Correspondent on the curfew being implemented in Alice Springs · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The Northern Territory Police Commissioner. This is an Australia has
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  Speaker 1: declared another curfew in Elie Springs. Our Australia correspondent is
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  Speaker 1: Donna Demanishes with US Live this morning. Donna, what's the
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  Speaker 1: latest here?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, well, Michael Murphy did declare this snap curfew from
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  Speaker 2: ten pm to six am. This is for three days.
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  Speaker 2: This is because there's been a string of violent incidents.
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  Speaker 2: Now the curfew applies to adults and children this time around.
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  Speaker 2: Do we know that in March there was a youth
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  Speaker 2: curfew that lasted a couple of weeks. I do believe
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  Speaker 2: if I remember correctly. Now the Northern Territory Police Minister
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  Speaker 2: Brent Potter says it's been a horror seventy two hours
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  Speaker 2: in the Red Center in the Northern Territory. For instance,
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  Speaker 2: an alleged assault of four off duty police by about
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  Speaker 2: twenty people. A police officer was run over allegedly over
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  Speaker 2: outside sorry, outside a bottle shop. And we also heard
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  Speaker 2: that a forty two year old woman was allegedly stabbed
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  Speaker 2: a Sunday lunchtime. So we know now that these three days,
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  Speaker 2: this three day curfew has been imposed. We've heard from
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  Speaker 2: the Chief Minister also Eva Fowler, and she says she's
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  Speaker 2: saying that organizations need to step up, do more, and
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  Speaker 2: she's calling for more resources. So this doesn't keep happening
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  Speaker 2: quite distressing?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah it is, and as you say, the incidents keep happening,
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  Speaker 1: and so do the curfews. Let's go to Sydney. We're
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  Speaker 1: a council. Well, what's going on with this artwork? Fecturing?
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  Speaker 1: Am I right in saying Jesus and Looney Tunes?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, this is quite bizarre. But there's been quite an
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  Speaker 2: amount of outrage over this work of art. So the
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  Speaker 2: Sydney Local Council has said that what's taken off the
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  Speaker 2: art gallery wall? But there was this very vitriolic and
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  Speaker 2: highly critical online protest about this artwork. So what does
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  Speaker 2: it depict? Well, they're saying that it mocks the Christian
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  Speaker 2: religion and even the Liverpool Mayor said that he wanted
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  Speaker 2: to take it down. Effectively, the art depicted Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 2: carrying the cross. His face and others around him were
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  Speaker 2: overlaid with Looney Tunes characters. I think Jesus was depicted
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  Speaker 2: as goofy, so it was described by some as playful.
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  Speaker 2: On the other hand, the online anger was intense and
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  Speaker 2: the criticism was quite scathing. The artist says, look, he
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  Speaker 2: does like to stir a bit of a reaction, but
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  Speaker 2: the level of vitriol and sheer volume of online abuse
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  Speaker 2: was frightening.
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  Speaker 1: He said.
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  Speaker 2: He called the threats a not at all Christian. But
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  Speaker 2: after about nearly eight weeks then the artwork was taken
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  Speaker 2: down over the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Ah right, so it has been taken down Jesus. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: Jesus didn't have a sense of humor. Thank you very
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  Speaker 1: much for that. That is our Australia correspondent Donna Demo
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