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NT senator Jacinta Price prepares bill calling for return of remote community alcohol bans

Northern Territory Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price is drafting a private bill to reinstate long-term alcohol bans in remote Indigenous communities, after concerns about an "increase" in alcohol-related issues in some areas.  

Earlier this year, Intervention-era liquor bans ended in the NT, meaning dozens of previously dry communities, homelands and town camps were permitted to bring alcohol home.

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