People who commit knife crime in the NT will have their automatic right to bail revoked after the NT government passed new bail laws.
The new legislation will revoke the presumption of bail for people committing crimes with prohibited weapons, even if they are not holding the weapon themselves.
The push to revisit crime legislation comes after the recent fatal stabbing of 20-year-old Darwin bottle shop worker Declan Laverty.
The NT government also announced a voluntary buy-back scheme for liquor licences in an effort to reduce alcohol-related harm.
"There are strong laws in the Northern Territory to keep the community safe, as well as the investment to stop the reoffending, because that's what we need to focus on," Chief Minister Natasha Fyles told press on Thursday.
But the NT opposition has criticised the new bill as "false advertising" for only including prohibited weapons such as knives, axes and crossbows.
"Territorians are experiencing crimes where offenders are using weapons of opportunity - common items that criminals can get their hands on with ease," Opposition Leader Lia Finocchiaro said.
"Natasha Fyles' changes to bail deliberately do not include the more commonly used weapons in violent attacks such as a rock, star picket, broken bottle, car or screwdriver."
"Not far from the bottle shop where Declan Laverty was killed, a security guard only hours earlier was not smashed in the head with a crossbow - it was a rum bottle," she said.
Ms Fyles said her party had not ruled out any further changes to bail laws.
"We're not saying we won't make further changes into the future, but we will look at it in a considered approach," she said.
