New NT liquor law ends remote booze ban

By Aaron Bunch
Updated May 18 2022 - 3:11pm, first published 3:07pm
Remote Indigenous communities in the NT will have access to alcohol once federal bans lapse in July.
Remote Indigenous communities in the NT will have access to alcohol once federal bans lapse in July.

Booze will be allowed back into hundreds of Northern Territory remote Indigenous communities under new laws replacing alcohol bans imposed by the Howard government.

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