Spitting on doctors to trigger three-month prison sentence under new laws 

The new NT Government wants tougher sentences for abusing healthcare workers as well as to lower the age of criminal responsibility.
Bill Yan.

Spitting on doctors, nurses, paramedics, police or other frontline workers will result in a minimum three-month prison term under harsher penalties being introduced in the NT. 

The spitting laws are part of a suite of law-and-order reforms promised by the Country Liberal Party when it was elected eight weeks ago.