Alcohol Bans for Crime-Stricken Alice Springs Camps

The front yard of the home of indigenous campaigner Barbara Shaw in the Mount Nancy town camp at Alice Springs in Australia's Northern Territory state on Oct. 13, 2013. Greg Wood/AFP via Getty Images

Alcohol bans will be reinstated in central Australian Indigenous communities and town camps.

The Northern Territory (NT) government will introduce legislation next week to return the areas to “temporary dry zones,” Chief Minister Natasha Fyles said on Monday.