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Aaron Bunch

NT's booze law causing alleged crime wave

An NT politician has called for an alcohol ban to be reinstated in communities to cut 'lawlessness'. (Melanie Foster/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

Parts of the Northern Territory have been hit by a crime wave after an Intervention-era booze ban expired in many remote Aboriginal communities, a central Australian politician says.

The NT government replaced the federal law with controversial opt-in alcohol restrictions on July 17, with social service groups warning it was a "recipe for disaster" to allow alcohol back into communities that had been dry for 15 years.

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