The Australian federal government is being called on to enforce intervention-era alcohol restrictions in the Northern Territory with Country Liberal Senator Jacinta Price calling the current ban a “half-baked policy.”
Price, an Indigenous senator, sought bipartisan support for her Northern Territory Safe Measures Bill 2023, which will establish a federal and territory government partnership to address alcohol-related harm.
Some measures include developing alcohol management plans and a legal framework for prosecution.
“Senators, I plead with you to help me save the lives of those I love and those I’m democratically elected to represent and whose lives we are all responsible for,” she told Parliament on Feb. 8….