No decision on Alice Springs alcohol bans yet after report handed to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese

A decision on alcohol bans in central Australia could take up to a week as measures to reduce crime are still being discussed.

Newly appointed Central Australian Controller Dorelle Anderson handed the territory and federal governments a report yesterday examining whether to permanently enforce alcohol bans which were temporarily enacted this week.

It's yet to be made public but is understood to recommend a reinstatement of previous prohibitions.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese met with NT Chief Minister Natasha Fyles in Canberra today and said both governments would discuss the next steps with their respective cabinets next week.

"The report will be released by the NT Government after cabinet consideration, confirming next steps," he said.

"Our governments will listen and respond with the action local communities want us to take."

Fyles insisted any measures had to be more widespread than just around Alice Springs.

"The measure has to be for all Territorians. You cannot pick and choose based on someone's race or their address, which again is another race-based policy," she said.

The chief minister doesn't want to bring back the strict alcohol control measures in place under the former Stronger Futures policy, but would back the report's second recommendation, which 9News understands involved the NT receiving more needs-based funding.

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"I would like to see the investment we know will drive the long-term change not only for Territorians but for all of those people living in disadvantage," she said.

Indigenous Northern Territory Country Liberal Party Senator Jacinta Price said the government needed to review where funding was going, following criticisms GST money had gone to fund urban areas.

"I think it's hypocritical of her to suggest that there needs to be needs-based funding when she's been very heavily funded to provide the services that are needed for our most vulnerable community members."

The review came off the back of Albanese's trip to Alice Springs amid calls for federal intervention in the crime wave.

Crime is on the rise, with residents at their wits' end after a surge of break-ins, vandalism and alcohol-related assaults.

The latest data released by NT Police showed alcohol-related assault jumped 55 per cent in the last year to November, while domestic and common assault both increased by 43 per cent and 54 per cent, respectively.

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Commercial break-ins were up 56 per cent and reports of property damage climbed by almost 60 per cent.

Albanese visited the town last week amid calls for federal intervention in the crime wave.

The prime minister announced new alcohol restrictions, some starting on Monday, which aim to reduce the availability of takeaway grog.

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