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NT government opens voluntary buy-backs for grocery store liquor licences in move to reduce alcohol sales

The Northern Territory has about 50 shops with grocery store liquor licences. (ABC Pilbara: Amelia Searson)

Northern Territory Chief Minister Natasha Fyles says the government will open expressions of interest for the voluntary buy-back of grocery store-based liquor licences in the territory. 

The move is the latest in a series of measures introduced by the NT government aimed at reducing alcohol-related violence, and follows the fatal stabbing of 20-year-old Declan Laverty at a Darwin bottle shop earlier this month.

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