A fight has erupted between the Northern Territory Labor government and Jacinta Price over a bill the senator has introduced to federal parliament that seeks to reinstate intervention-era alcohol restrictions, with the NT chief minister saying it was drafted without consultation and confers power on a body “that does not exist”.
Price, a Country Liberal party senator for the Territory, tabled the Northern Territory safe measures bill on Wednesday, which provides for “all Territorians to be safe consuming and being exposed to alcohol and alcohol-related harm and violence”.
