In the Barkly, Borroloola, Elliott and Ali Curung are on the list to become boom towns with better access to services such as health, education, transport and employment.

Residents will be offered the same secure land tenure and investment opportunities as available in other Australian towns.

Launched this week by Chief Minister, Paul Henderson, and Indigenous Policy Minister, Alison Anderson, the strategy - titled A Working Future - is aimed at improving opportunities in remote areas.

“It will lift development, create jobs and bring Indigenous Territorians into the Territory’s broader economic development,” Ms Anderson said.

The Government will not develop any new outstations or homelands but has committed to fund these areas at current levels provided they are occupied for at least eight months of the year.

The identified towns will be responsible for service delivery to outlying communities, homelands and pastoral properties while commercial and business development will be encouraged and supported.

The plan was based on the recommendations of Patrick Dodson who was engaged by the Territory Government to report on the future of outstations.

Around $160 million of Northern Territory and Federal Government funds will be invested into the scheme over the next five years.