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Jacqueline Breen, Matt Garrick and Alicia Perera

Alice Springs report recommends urgent new alcohol laws, needs-based funding for NT services

A report commissioned by the Northern Territory and federal governments has recommended both urgent new alcohol laws as well as extra funding to help tackle the underlying causes of crime in Alice Springs. 

Long-time bureaucrat Dorrelle Anderson was tasked with advising on whether Intervention-era alcohol bans should be temporarily reinstated in the face of a spike in crime and alcohol-fuelled violence in the town.

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