The Northern Territory government has been criticised for failing to act on any recommendations made from a report into the effects of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder.
The report was handed down 14 months ago by a parliamentary committee and found the condition was doing “untold harm to children in the Northern Territory.”
The territory’s Health Minister, John Elferink, has previously referred to measures such as the enforcement of paperless arrests and stationing police outside bottle shops as a means of reducing alcohol consumption.
Policy and research director for the First People’s Disability Network Scott Avery says the issue needs to be looked at as a health one rather than a law and order problem.
