No alcohol beyond this point: restricted areas in the Top End

[Extract] A recent surge in applications for restricted alcohol areas in the Northern Territory (NT) will take the number of restricted areas there to more than 100. The restricted area provisions of the current NT Liquor Act have presented remote Indigenous communities with the opportunity to re-enforce their own local efforts to control liquor and its attendant problems. The configurations of restricted areas take several forms, ranging from small areas of land surrounding single family outstations, where liquor is prohibited, up to large mixed communities with around 2800 residents, where liquor is available in accordance with liquor permits for the restricted area