After 15 years, alcohol bans imposed on some Indigenous communities during the intervention have come to an end. We speak to community leaders about what's ahead.
Advocacy groups are anxiously watching what happens next.
"There's no doubt that the majority of offending in the NT is alcohol-related," Martin Dole, an assistant commissioner with NT police, said before the laws came into effect. In drinking camps, in licensed venues and behind closed doors, Northern Territorians are the heaviest per capita drinkers in Australia.
According to the government, only about 7,000 Territorians are affected by the changes, and accusations that "rivers of grog" will flow in communities have been overshot.
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