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Tangentyere Council in Alice Springs blasts previous Northern Territory liquor bans as 'punitive'

Residents of Alice Springs' town camps are not supportive of a return of blanket alcohol bans, a local Aboriginal council says, as a snap review ordered by the prime minister begins.

The so-called Stronger Futures bans lapsed in dozens of the Northern Territory's remote and regional First Nations communities last July, including in 18 Alice Springs town camps, after being in place for 15 years.

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