Prominent Aboriginal politician and leader Warren Mundine has blasted Anthony Albanese for spending his days in corporate boxes drinking alcohol rather than addressing the booze-fuelled crime wave gripping Alice Springs and the Northern Territory.

The Prime Minister was spotted enjoying a beer on Friday, Saturday and Sunday while watching the semi-final and both the women's and men's finals at the Australian Open in Melbourne.

His Australian Open stint was just three days after his whirlwind four hour trip to Alice Springs on Tuesday to announce new bans on alcohol sales to try and curb a youth crime wave locals say has been inflamed by Labor removing grog bans in the Northern Territory communities.

His whirlwind trip quickly earned him the new nickname 'FIFO PM' and sparked backlash from not only Mundine, but prominent Northern Territory Country Liberals Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price.

Mr Mundine was furious when speaking to 2GB breakfast host Ben Fordham on Tuesday morning, saying kicking back with a beer sent the wrong message.

'The country is hurting now,' he said on Tuesday morning.

'Get out of the bloody corporate boxes and stop drinking alcohol and actually do your bloody job.' 

Mr Mundine compared the photographs to pictures of prime minister Scott Morrison holidaying in Hawaii during the Black Summer bushfires in 2019.

The devastating fires destroyed more than 24million hectares of land and directly killed 33 people while up to 450 died from the impact of smoke inhalation.

Mr Morrison added fuel to the backlash when he defended his overseas trip saying he didn't 'hold a hose' like firefighters.

Mr Mundine slammed Mr Albanese for breaking his promise to be different from his predecessor.

'He said he was going to do things, and all him and his ministers have been doing is flying around the country and having great times going to sporting events and drinking,' he said.

His outburst on 2GB came after Mr Mundine earlier said he felt 'really, really sick' by Mr Albanese and his trip to the Australian Open. 

'You've got all these people who are being abused … assaulted in the Northern Territory, and he (Albanese) spent three days lounging around the tennis courts, drinking beer and having a great time with mates,' he said.

'This is a bloke who wants to have a legacy about how he treats Aboriginal people and how he's going to make the world better.

'And here he is – the visual of that really, really made me sick.'

Fordham joined in on the criticism telling 2GB listeners Mr Albanese was a 'long way from fixing the problem' in Alice Springs.

He slammed the decision to introduce temporary alcohol bans as a 'half-baked plan'. 

Senator Price, who served as the former deputy mayor of Alice Springs, joined in on the pile-on.

'It's an insult and a kick in the guts for the people of Alice Springs to see the PM spending more time relaxing and chugging back beers at the tennis than what he did on the ground in Alice Springs,' Senator Price told the Daily Telegraph. 

'The threats and mayhem haven't stopped.

'We locals are subject to no longer being able to shop after 7pm as our shopping centres and town goes into lockdown.'

Both Senator Price and Mr Mundine called on the PM and Linda Burney, the Minister for Indigenous Australians, to return to Alice Springs. 

Deputy Liberal leader Sussan Ley said Mr Albanese spending 'just four hours' in Alice Springs but days at the tennis 'didn't pass the pub test'.

'You don't get to be a part-time prime minister,' she said.

Shocking video from the troubled remote Northern Territory town shows a pub on one of the main streets under siege by belligerent teenagers on Saturday night.

A guest at the pub who filmed the disturbing scenes described it as the 'most terrifying night of my life'.

The footage showed an Aboriginal girl hurling abuse through a fence at patrons before customers sitting in the pub beer garden started to fight with locals.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced last Tuesday immediate restrictions on alcohol sales in Alice Springs would come into effect.

The restrictions will last three months as part of a campaign to curb growing youth crime rates across the region.  

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