There has been a 26 per cent decrease in alcohol-related assaults in the Northern Territory since it introduced the country's first alcohol floor price and rolled out a range of new measures.

Key points: The Northern Territory Government's alcohol floor price came into effect in October 2018

The Northern Territory Government's alcohol floor price came into effect in October 2018 Canada and Scotland are among the few other jurisdictions globally to set a floor price

Canada and Scotland are among the few other jurisdictions globally to set a floor price The floor price was one of raft of recommended alcohol reforms rolled out by the NT Government

A preliminary data assessment published by the People's Alcohol Action Coalition and the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE) showed there was also a 21 per cent decrease overall in domestic violence incidences in the NT since the floor price's introduction on October 1, 2018 until July 31, 2019.

The floor price set a minimum amount for which alcohol can be sold at $1.30 per standard drink.

In Alice Springs, where a raft of reforms were introduced following the 2017 release of the Riley review into alcohol policies, there has been a 43 per cent reduction in alcohol-related assaults and a 38 per cent reduction in domestic violence during that same period.

Concurrently, Tennant Creek saw drops of 28 per cent for both alcohol-related assaults and domestic violence.

In the Darwin area, there was a drop of alcohol-related assaults and domestic violence by 16 per cent and 9 per cent respectively.

The NT Government also reintroduced the Banned Drinker's Register (BDR) in September 2017, the full effects of which are still subject to a four-year review period.

The new report stated of all the people on the BDR, nearly 30 per cent were women and more than 20 per cent were non-Indigenous.

Police auxiliary liquor inspectors, who are allowed to question customers and seize purchases, have also been stationed at alcohol takeaway outlets in Alice Springs, Katherine and Tennant Creek.

Figures have shown significant drops in alcohol-related violence in the Northern Territory. ( Supplied: NT Alcohol Harm-Reduction Report )

Less women presenting to hospital with defensive injuries

Domestic violence was named as the "initiating incident" that led to one in four, or 26 per cent, of the current BDR registrants.

FARE chief executive Michael Thorn said alcohol was the biggest issue facing the Territory.

"The NT's road to the reduction of alcohol-fuelled harm is a long one, but there are early signs that the Riley Review's integrated response may at last see the NT on the right path to losing its damning status as Australia's centre for alcohol harm," he said.

A report released in March this year by the Menzies School of Health Research showed the NT had the highest rates of alcohol consumption per capita in Australia, with correspondingly high rates of alcohol-fuelled violence and crime.

While the researchers found consumption in the NT had decreased over the past 15 years, the costs and harms associated with it had not.

A floor price on alcohol was one of the key recommendations from a wide-ranging review released by former NT supreme court justice Trevor Riley. ( ABC TV )

The total social cost of alcohol in 2015/16 was estimated at $1.38 billion, a total estimated impact of $7,577 per adult.

Alice Springs Hospital director of emergency medicine Dr Stephen Gourley said they had noticed a reduction of women presenting with "defensive fractures" as well as drunk patients.

"We used to see a lot of ladies with defensive fractures of the forearms just from fending off attacks," he said.

"That was a common fracture — not common elsewhere but common in Alice Springs. It is very, very rare new, I haven't seen one for months.

"We were seeing up to 30 intoxicated people per day and now it's just down to a few."

The NT Government passed the Liquor Bill 2019 on August 14 and all of its regulations came into effect on October 1.