The Australian Government is providing more police for remote communities as part of the Northern Territory Emergency Response. The Little Children are Sacred report identified alcohol abuse as the 'gravest and fastest growing threat to the safety of Aboriginal children'. The former Australian Government changed legislation to help prevent children from being exposed to sexually explicit material within the Northern Territory’s Aboriginal communities. As part of the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER), night patrol services are being extended to all 73 NTER communities.
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