Assistant Minister for Indigenous Australians Malarndirri McCarthy calls on the liquor industry to 'step up' and help clamp down on alcohol-fuelled violence in Central Australia.
The Northern Territory already has some of the tightest alcohol regulations in the country.
Licensed grocery stores — excluding Coles and Woolworths — are also required to cap their liquor sales so that they do not exceed 25 per cent of total sales. Mr Vatskalis said ratepayers were forking out "an arm and a leg" for the council to clean up broken glass and other alcohol-related damage every year.He said the alcohol industry could do more to curb the crisis by reducing opening hours at bottle shops and employing their own liquor inspectors at retailers across the territory.
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