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The voluntary buy-backs scheme comes after the introduction of a range of other policy measures by the NT government following the fatal stabbing of a young bottle shop worker last week.

The Northern Territory government will offer to buy back liquor licences in an effort to reduce the amount...

The Northern Territory government has announced a voluntary liquor license buy-back scheme, in a move aimed at reducing “alcohol related harm and antisocial behaviour” across the state. 

Damian Crook, the devastated father of BWS worker Declan Laverty, 20, who died after being stabbed during a shift has claimed his son was spat on and called racist after refusing to serve people.

A new bill in the Northern Territory to revoke bail for violent offenders would further entrench systemic racism...

Tougher bail laws have passed the Northern Territory parliament following the stabbing death of a bottle shop worker in Darwin 10 days ago, but the reforms will not apply to offences involving improvised weapons such as rocks and bottles.

Changes to policing to curb a prolonged surge in violent crime are "unsustainable", the union says, amid reports of a chronic shortfall in officers. 

Following the death of 20-year-old Declan Laverty who was allegedly stabbed at his workplace in Darwin by a...

The father of a young Darwin man killed last week has called for urgent government action to address rampant crime in the Northern Territory.

People who commit crimes involving a weapon will have their right to bail revoked in the Northern Territory....