This week senior politicians, including Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, descended on Alice Springs amidst an escalating crisis of alcohol related violence and crime in Aboriginal communities. This crisis is not a surprise. Last year, alcohol bans were lifted in hundreds of town camps, remote communities and homeland communities across the Northern Territory and the Albanese government proudly abolished cashless welfare across the country. Many Aboriginal people, including Senator Jacinta Price and myself, warned that abolishing these measures would be a disaster. And here we are.