Sign up for the Breaking News Australia email <\/a><\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s deeply distressing, not only for the family, but for the wider community,\u201d the commissioner said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a horrific event and a horrific set of circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n
The death has spurred calls for a review of conditions within town camps and money spent on the sites, including from NT Liberal senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price.<\/p>\n
The NT chief minister, Lia Finocchiaro, visited the girl\u2019s mother in Alice Springs as the family began sorry business, the term used for cultural mourning.<\/p>\n
\u201cRight now, our focus is on a family, a town and a territory grieving \u2013 the politics can wait,\u201d a spokesperson for Finocchiaro said.<\/p>\n
The federal Nationals leader, Matt Canavan, also used the tragedy to renew calls for a royal commission into the abuse of Indigenous children and a broader inquiry into how public funds were spent in the area of First Nations affairs.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince the defeat of the voice [referendum], the government has effectively run scared from Indigenous policy,\u201d Canavan told ABC\u2019s Insiders program on Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ve got to get your hands dirty, get out into communities and take practical action to help people\u2019s lives, not just throw money at it.\u201d<\/p>\n
But the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, rejected calls for an inquiry, saying his government\u2019s $4bn in spending on remote housing was already improving living standards.<\/p>\n
Investigation continues into alleged looting<\/p>\n
Police are also investigating looting and violence that erupted after the arrest, including attacks on emergency services and extensive damage to local businesses.<\/p>\n
Officers have released footage showing people breaking into shops and stealing stock.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat you will see is criminal behaviour, plain and simple,\u201d Dole said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s abhorrent, it\u2019s disgusting and it will not be tolerated or accepted by the Northern Territory police \u2013 and it should not be accepted by the community.\u201d<\/p>\n
Two people have handed themselves in and several others have been arrested, with more charges expected as investigators review hundreds of hours of footage.<\/p>\n
Officers are also looking for people they believe assisted Lewis before his arrest.<\/p>\n
Community elders and the girl\u2019s family have called for calm and urged people to let the courts deal with both the alleged murder and the unrest.<\/p>\n
Authorities imposed temporary takeaway alcohol restrictions in an effort to prevent further violence, and police say they will maintain a strong presence in Alice Springs and surrounding communities in coming days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northern Territory police have charged Jefferson Lewis with murder over the death of five-year-old Kumanjayi Little Baby. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-646567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}