Policy Elements of the NTER for Alcohol Reduction

Running head: POLICY ELEMENTS OF THE NTER FOR ALCOHOL REDUCTION
Policy elements of the NTER for alcohol reduction
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POLICY ELEMENTS OF THE NTER FOR ALCOHOL REDUCTION 1
Synopsis:
Excessive consumption of alcohol is a problem because of its adverse consequences on the
environment and to the individuals of the community (Waterworth et al., 2016). The issue
related to alcohol has been a significant problem among the aboriginal people in the northern
territory. It has been noted as the biggest reason for crimes among the community which
results in the reduction of life expectancy, education, employment status and poor health.
The intervention was a package of legislation targeting the indigenous communities in the
northern territory. The NTER policies were developed and implemented to put restrictions on
alcohol, changes to welfare payments, employment, and education and health initiatives. The
specific policy elements of NTER include a restriction on sale, purchase, and consumption of
alcohol in prescribed areas. Besides, it also included a collection of compulsory information
for the bulk purchase of alcohol and introduction of new penalty provisions. One of the key
policy elements introduced in 2013 legislative package included tackling of alcohol abuse
measure ("Review of the harmful use of alcohol amongst Indigenous Australians", 2013).
The main purpose of this measure was to introduce special measures for reducing alcohol-
related farms to aboriginal people in the northern territory. One of the most widely used
psychoactive drugs in Australia is alcohol. It is believed that white people introduced alcohol
to the aboriginal people. Many believe that drinking is a part of the aboriginal culture and
only real Australian people engage in the alcohol consumption (Yu, Duncan & Gray, 2008).
Some of the factors that limited the effectiveness of the NTER policies in alcohol
consumption include black market slogging and displacement o drinking issues to other
areas. Restrictions by the implemented policies do not work effectively unless they are
enforced and addressed the reason for drinking. Besides, limitation of enforcement is
applicable to general provisions of liquor licensing legislation that include responsible
servings of alcohol.
Measurement of the effectiveness of the previous strategies that have been used is difficult
since it is impossible to discrete the effect of alcohol restriction in aboriginal communities
since community people are standing on alcohol restrictions. Besides alcohol restrictions
have resulted to cause the annual supply of alcohol in the market to drop drastically (Evans,
2012). Previous alcohol restriction strategies have also resulted in the community people to
engage in illicit alcohol trafficking and increased alcohol-related crimes. Hence alternative