Speaking to the BBC, she said: "It's not just a London or a big town problem.
This weekend's shootings, which spanned the country, show that it is not accurate to describe gun violence as an urban problem, or a small-town problem, or a problem related to poverty.
There is no doubt that methamphetamine had made it into the community before the current boom, but the injection of a large testosterone-heavy workforce, assigned to tough and repetitive work, and the lack of anything else to do in the area have made a small-town problem a big deal.
We also had to solve the town's problems, which are the problems of every small town in Japan: old people getting older, young people leaving".
Nine councillors from El Bab recently tried to form a new body, blaming the council for the town's problems.
"They bring nothing to the town, except problems," says the mayor of Korsakov, grim home to around 40,000 people and a stone's throw from the LNG plant.
The mayor of this place is an ancient tortoise, its residents are moles, cockroaches and other less identifiable varmints, and the bad guy is a snake, but the town's problems with water and money replicate those of the human world that exists just over the horizon, where the highway is.
Giles said the government was putting $4.2m into youth services, and at a press conference on Wednesday afternoon rejected suggestions that successive funding cuts by the NT and federal governments had played a role in the town camp problems and needed to be assessed within the audit.
A black comedy about a Vermont town's problems with a corpse that just will not stay buried, it had the virtues of amusing performances by Edmund Gwenn and (in her screen debut) Shirley MacLaine, but the film attracted little box-office business.
Margaret Thatcher, the Tory prime minister throughout the 1980s, was, and still is, blamed by many for the town's problems.
