The Nationals are focusing on youth crime in the red centre but have ruled out a Howard-era intervention policy as the campaign in the Top End rolls on.
The Country Liberal Party, which sits within the Nationals partyroom, is vying for both Northern Territory seats held by Labor.
Solomon is held by Labor on more than eight per cent and spans most of Darwin while Lingiari is held on less than two per cent and takes in the rest of the territory.
Culture and connection to country shouldn't be prioritised over children's safety, the coalition's Indigenous Australians spokeswoman and NT senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price says.
"Indigenous children should not be treated differently because of their racial heritage," she told reporters in Darwin on Wednesday.
"For a lot of Indigenous children, you can't sit there and tell them you should stay in horrible circumstances where your human rights aren't being upheld, where your needs are not being met, where you're being exposed to domestic and family violence and sexual abuse."
The coalition had focused on crime in Alice Springs in the run up to the federal election as it spruiked its tough-on-crime message.
But a return to the approach of former Liberal prime minister John Howard has been ruled out.
The controversial intervention from 2007 forced measures on Indigenous communities in the NT including restrictions and bans on alcohol and pornography, quarantined welfare payments and a bolstered police presence to address violence.
"No, there won't be any intervention-style policies," Senator Price said.
But programs targeting disadvantage that aren't up to scratch face the chopping block.
"It's about those who have been responsible, who had plenty of government funding to bring about closing the gap measures in this country, and are failing," said Senator Price, who doubles as the coalition's government efficiency spokeswoman.
Measures would be targeted at Australia's most marginalised people, such as remote Indigenous communities, rather than Indigenous people in cities being given access to government funding purely based on race, she said.
"There's been a lot of concern that I'm somehow going to neglect Indigenous Australians in our in our urban centres," she said.
"No, I'm not going to neglect those individuals, far from it.
"The coalition wants to support Australians on the basis of need, not race."
