Tennant Creek to be sold wine in plastic bottles

Tennant Creek drinkers will soon cop some of the country's most stringent liquor restrictions ... as well as plastic wine bottles.

The Territory town's publicans, police and Liquor Licensing have struck a voluntary agreement that will make three changes to the way takeaway grog is sold.

Licensees have decided to ban the sale of wine between 6pm and 8pm every night, and only sell mid-strength alcohol on Mondays.

Tennant Creek Hotel owner Jordan Jenkins, a member of the town's liquor accord, says the main wine supplier has also agreed to trial selling wine in plastic bottles.

"We have proposed that we are going to start 'mid-strength only Monday', which will give everyone a fresh start to the week," Mr Jenkins said.

"We have been in discussions with the main wine supplier and they've agreed to trial plastic wine bottles.

"They're in the trial of that at the moment - hopefully that will come out in a couple of weeks."

Mr Jenkins said plastic wine bottles should cut the amount of smashed glass in the town's streets.

"Well they are proposing to keep everything the same about their bottles except they are going to change them from glass to plastic, and that's because they're like us," he said.

"Everyone is striving to make the community better.

"We've been in discussions with them and it's getting to the stage where we've said 'look you need to do something or we'll do something'."

The plastic wine bottles are also being considered for Alice Springs.

Source: ABC News, 23 September 2013