The Northern Territory's new alcohol restrictions regime came into effect today.

NT parliament passed the Liquor Amendment Act 2023 on Tuesday evening, reintroducing alcohol bans in town camps and remote communities across central Australia, after months of community discontent and national attention amid alcohol-fuelled crime in and around Alice Springs.

A return to strict prohibitions followed a string of meetings, visits to Alice by national cabinet, community consultation, snap bans on alcohol sales, and a report handed down by newly-appointed Central Australia Regional Controller Dorrelle Anderson.

NT Chief Minister Natasha Fyles said changes to the Territory's liquor act are based on community-decision making, with areas able to opt-out of restrictions only with the development of alcohol plans approved by 60% of the local community and the director of Liquor Licensing.

"We have continued to listen to local communities and expert advice and are now further strengthening alcohol restrictions. This is a new approach," Ms Fyles said.

"It is community-led with local decision making at its core and will be coupled with a major investment in the hard work of addressing the cause of crime."

In a statement the NT government said 88 of the 96 major communities across the entire Northern Territory will experience no change under the new restrictions.

"Those communities have chosen restrictions which work for them and we will not take that power away from them," it said.

The end of alcohol bans under the Stronger Futures legislation in mid-2022 sparked criticism from a number of community leaders, organisations and politicians at the NT government's failure to pursue a gradual exit from restrictions.

One day after Ms Fyles, also Minister for Alcohol Policy, and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese first flagged the legislative amendments Tuesday, Country Liberal Party Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price took her own private members bill to Canberra; advocating more stringent policy and greater responsibility at the federal level.

Aboriginal Peak Organisations Northern Territory (APO NT) said the measures proposed by Senator Price "do nothing more than what has already been agreed to be implemented by the Prime Minister and Chief Minister".

Central Land Council chief executive Les Turner, an APO NT spokesperson, called for an end to "the intervention era".

Conversations have continued on the need to address underlying issues impacting central Australian communities, both including and separate to alcohol-related concerns, with some voices asserting that remote communities have been long-disregarded by decision-makers.

Chief Minister Fyles has noted that "alcohol restrictions alone will not address the underlying causes of antisocial behaviour. The issues are complex and have developed over decades".

In January Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney said "the underlying issues in Aboriginal communities go back to intergenerational trauma, it goes back to levels of disadvantage".

"I think alcohol is one of the major contributors to some of these problems... it's about balance...being able to drink is not more important than being safe, in my view," Ms Burney said.

A $250 million package, in addition to $48 million previously announced, has been directed toward a range of community safety measures in the region.

It follows widespread calls for self-determination and positive action.

North Australia Aboriginal Justice Agency acting chief executive and APO NT spokesperson, Dr John Paterson, said with the National Partnership on Northern Territory Remote Aboriginal Investment coming to an end, "now is the time to build a new approach for future investment, based on a formal partnership between governments, APO NT and Northern Territory communities, and in line with the National Agreement on Closing the Gap".