A return to strict alcohol bans in Alice Springs and surrounding areas is expected to be considered following the handing-down of review of restrictions in the town.
The newly-appointed Central Australia Regional Controller is understood to have recommended urgent amendments to the Northern Territory's Liquor Act.
The report advises bans are put in place across central Australia, including town camps, until individual alcohol management plans are developed by communities which will allow them to opt-out of the restrictions.
Dorelle Anderson, the first Indigenous woman to serve as executive director of the NT Department of Territory Families, Housing and Communities' Southern Regional, was tasked with formulating the report by the Territory and Federal Governments last week.
It comes after snap-restrictions were imposed on the sale of alcohol in Alice Springs last week.
NT Chief Minister Natasha Fyles told Sky News the report contains "recommendations - plural", making clear that alcohol bans alone were not a long-term solution.
On Thursday Alice Springs mayor Matt Paterson said a return to Stronger Futures legislation, a strict alcohol restriction scheme in place for a decade across Territory communities which ended last July, would be "very welcome".
"It was there for 15 years, it lapsed overnight and clearly we weren't ready for it," he told Sky.
"I'm not really here to say whose fault it is, I'm just glad to see that the report says it's going to be reintroduced and hopefully the Northern Territory government do implement it and that's the brave decision they're going to have to take.
"I'm not suggesting that it be forever so I am glad that it does quote the alcohol management plans and I think it is a step in the right direction for central Australia."
The "overnight" end to Strong Futures has garnered criticism from political and community leaders since it dissolved.
Voice Referendum Working Group member Patricia Anderson reiterated that Indigenous people must be consulted on issues impacting their communities and have been largely ignored over time.
She called the current situation a "tragedy".
"There's been hardly any investment in Aboriginal remote communities for decades," Ms Anderson told ABC Radio National on Thursday.
"There's no quick fix to alcohol restrictions…It's a tragedy, but it's been a long time in the making, and successive governments of all kinds of political persuasions have known about this.
"I'm a big advocate for First Nations people speaking up about their own issues. I think the question should always be put to the people, First Nations people, that live in and around Alice Springs and across the Northern Territory. That's what needs to happen.
"We've been talking about these issues for generations…Hence, we're in the political situation that we have now to try to get governments of the day to listen to what Aboriginal people on the ground (say) what their needs and priorities are, and it's still happening. This is a really good example of that hope that hasn't happened."
A response to the report is expected to come following meetings between NT Chief Minister and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Canberra on Thursday, 2 February.
