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Alex Mitchell

Fears new NT curfew laws will target Indigenous people

The NT government imposed a curfew in Alice Springs after youth crime problems. (Aaron Bunch/AAP PHOTOS)

The Northern Territory has passed new laws that let emergency curfews be more easily imposed in a move its government says will keep crime and anti-social behaviour down.

But it's been met with criticism by Indigenous justice bodies, who believe the laws will disproportionately target Aboriginal people.

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