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Aaron Bunch

New NT liquor law ends remote booze ban

Remote Indigenous communities in the NT will have access to alcohol once federal bans lapse in July. (AAP)

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

The NT government says its amended liquor laws, which were passed by parliament late on Tuesday, will give communities "greater power" to choose if they want alcohol restrictions when the Intervention-era commonwealth law ends in July.

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