Alcohol bans in town camps and remote communities across central Australia will be put into effect soon, NT Chief Minister Natasha Fyles announced on Monday.
Ms Fyles said urgent legislation will be introduced in next week's parliamentary sitting.
The strict measures will prohibit alcohol sales in these communities and come after recommendations from a report into the surge in crime in-and-around Alice Springs commissioned by the Chief Minister and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese late last month.
On February 2 the review was handed to the pair from recently appointed Central Australian Regional Controller Dorrelle Anderson.
Blanket bans were flagged as a potential move by Mr Albanese before he and Ms Fyles met to discuss the report in Canberra last week.
Ms Fyles was adamant the reinstated prohibitions are not a return to the interventionist Stronger Futures legislation in place for more than a decade, which ended in July last year.
She said the latest changes are centred around community-led decision making.
Criticism has been directed towards the NT and federal governments for failing to provide gradual diversions away from the scheme.
In the period since, individual communities were presented with opt-in opportunities to continue restrictions.
The new measures will work on an opt-out basis, with the option out available on the provision that communities develop alcohol management plans and reach a vote of 60 percent support vote to lift the bans within the local population.
"We've heard loudly and clearly that the matter and decision of alcohol on community needs to be one that is made by the entire community," Ms Fyles said at a press conference on Monday.
"That is why we're creating a circuit breaker and implementing temporary dry zones until communities can develop and vote on the alcohol management plans."
She conceded the complexities presented as alcohol "is a legal product" and there will be people disappointed by the announcement.
Many Indigenous leaders and community voices, including Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney and the Prime Minister, have raised the impact of underlying issues both contributing to and existing separately of alcohol-fuelled violence in disadvantaged communities.
In parliament on Monday Mr Albanese said "all governments could have done better" in addressing these concerns and announced an additional $250 million injection into the Territory.
"This isn't just about alcohol," he said.
"Indeed of the 96 remote communities in the Northern Territory 88 of them are dry. This is about intergenerational disadvantage. It is about a lack of employment services, a lack of community services, a lack of educational opportunity."
The Prime Minister said provisions will be directed toward community safety, youth engagement, diversion programs, investing in families and domestic violence services, on-country learning and job creation alongside investment in local infrastructure such as CCTV and lighting.
In a statement, Ms Fyles added funding will go towards preventing and addressing foetal alcohol spectrum disorders.
"These policies will be developed and implemented in partnership with the Northern Territory Government with the Northern Territory controller Terrell Anderson has been put in place. They're driven by one goal, real lasting improvements in people's lives," Mr Albanese said.
Ms Fyles said the added support to the recently announced $48 million investment into the region will help "drive real change".
Current snap restrictions on alcohol sales in Alice Springs will remain in place for the immediate future.
The Regional Controller's report is available here.
