A minimum price for alcohol helped curb problem drinking in the Northern Territory — is it time for a national rollout?
- Written by Nicholas Patrick Taylor, PhD Candidate, Deakin University
The “floor price” for alcohol introduced by the Northern Territory in 2018 reduced the consumption of cask wine by half, without significantly impacting sales of other types of alcohol, according to our new analysis of the policy’s effectiveness.
On October 1, 2018, the NT introduced a minimum price of A$1.30 per unit (equivalent...





