NT’s biggest remote community Maningrida is trying its own solutions to stop youth crime, but is begging for help

In the Northern Territory’s biggest remote Aboriginal community, Maningrida, building contractor Bec Hammet had hoped to have finished constructing 12 new NT Government public houses in February.

But she said a surge in nightly youth vandalism over the last six months has set back the project until May.

The damage bill her Darwin-based company SH Build is now facing means it probably will not break even on the contract.

“Generally, in most communities we work…