A majority of grocery store liquor licenses are tied to the building which thwarted the Fyles Government’s license buy-back scheme, industry sources said, something the government did not know when it made its policy, while the government has refused to say what percentage of the Territory’s alcohol sales the three licenses bought back accounted for.
Only three of roughly 50 licensed grocery stores across the Territory agreed to sell their liquor licences back to the government recently, Chief Minister and Alcohol Policy Minister Natasha Fyles said in a statement on Wednesday, with all of them in Darwin, where one industry source said the percentage of alcohol sold would not come anywhere close to what would be sold in Alice Springs.
The 25% decision was just one of many knee jerk reactions. Alcohol sales are a seasonal in nature. Changing days where alcohol can be bought in order to meet that target will just change shopping patterns rather than product purchases. In many cases it will result in people doing long distance grog runs and put more drunks on the road. It would be much better for everyone to treat alcoholism instead of making life more profitable for criminals.
This government will do anything they can to punish honest and law abiding citizens instead of holding criminals responsible for their actions.
We all know that this is all about keeping Aboriginal incarceration rates as low as they possibly can.
The solution is simple, long gaol sentences for violent criminals.
Every single one of them should have cream on their face at the very least. Call the pollies out whenever you see them in public, make it known to them that their betrayal of law abiding Territorians means that they are no longer welcome here in this place. Make their lives a living hell. That’s the least they deserve.