Legal and civil rights organisations in the Top End have condemned the Labor government's introduction of new curfew laws.
It follows the in the wake of unrest.
Chief Minister Eva Lawler declared that curfew, which prohibited any minor from being outside past 6pm for a period of three weeks, a success.
This was despite concerns from leading legal advocates such as the Northern Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency that the laws would disproportionately target the area's First Nations youth.
On Thursday last week, the government introduced legislation which would facilitate the easier imposition of such curfews in future.
The 'Police Administration Bill' gives the Territory's Police Commissioner, currently Michael Murphy, powers to enact a three-day snap curfew.
Any extension would then require approval from the Police Minister.
The Northern Territory Anti-Discrimination Commission declared the bill "an affront to the rule of law".
"It promotes arbitrary use of power and has the effect of suspending the Anti-Discrimination Act 1992 (ADA)," they said in a release.
"The Bill proposes to specifically curtail the application of the ADA, meaning that the Police Commissioner will not need to consider, nor be bound, by the ADA when making a public disorder declaration or acting under that declaration.
"This has the very real possibility of profiling and targeting groups or people that the ADA is explicitly designed to protect."
The concerns echo those expressed by the Territory's Children's Commissioner, who questioned the laws' potential to "target and harm vulnerable and marginalised groups, such as Aboriginal children and young people."
