This is fantastic and why the voters gave a breath taking mandate to the CLP!
And in terms of any document that comes out of the Bermuda Triangle of Tax payers fund “Menzies School of Alleged Health Research”, who cares???? What does that place actually do????
This measure may work for Europeans, but nobody else.
Fining Aboriginal nuisance drinkers and stand-over merchants sounds good, but how are you going to make them pay? They will give alternative names and addresses and move to a new drinking camp.
Even if you identify them accurately, they will not pay their fines. If you imprison them, then the taxpayer has to meet the cost of lodging as well, which will make them marginally healthier for the next bout of drinking. This is never a deterrent.
Some academic believes drinkers must be warned about the health implications of alcohol abuse. Somebody please put this princess somewhere she can do no harm.
Robyn Lambley wants therapy. You pay for it, Jackie. Perhaps your Latte club members will contribute.
Seriously, one third of the NT population is marginalised by government and has been since 1978; so of course, increasingly, they anaesthetise with alcohol. This is actually what happens when you refuse to recognise or communicate human beings, regardless of race.
The original Liquor Commissioner, Ian Pitman, was a professional in this arena, which is why the first administration was a success. Bumbling bureaucrats and politicians have managed to create a disaster area that effects the innocent along with the guilty.
The first move should have been to cease harassing normal drinkers by demanding ID. This is pure WEFfery and does not belong in Australia.
Secondly, the restriction means one part of the population covers its fortnight budgetary shortfall by buying Jack Danials and later selling for double the price. This is a virtual NT industry. Pretending this seldom occurs is part of the problem because the most determined drinkers access this black-market and it is the kids and the reduced grocery supply who suffer.
Finally, give up on prisons. Apart from remand, this achieves nothing and actually creates recidivists. Break free from this absurd tradition and establish rural work centres where convicted prisoners eradicate noxious weeds, have award pay lodged into their accounts and, upon release, provide supervision to enable reentry into the wider community. This also provides work experience, something sorely lacking among many Territorians.
I can tell you one thing for sure; no problem drinkers will risk a return to earning a living.
I say all this tongue-in-cheek. Alcohol abuse has worsened steadily in the more than fifty years I have observed the Top End, and no politician is going to admit this. We will steadfastly make matters worse, It’s a glorious tradition.
All of the reasons why it won’t work by people that want to maintain the victimhood theory. Alcohol addiction is an illness. BDR and floor price do nothing to help the situation. All that floor price changed was the choice of poison. The latest arrest for grog running showed a big collection of spirits including rum which has at least one fight in every bottle. Rum is well known for causing aggressive behaviour and has become a drink of choice since cask wine was priced out of the market. The other effect of floor price was to decimate finances quicker before children got food. This has a flow on effect such as the break-ins and armed robberies in Katherine and Alice. Every police crackdown has been little more than an exercise in herding cats. The problems always move to the place where police resources are temporarily depleted. We need to give the government space to implement measures to reduce the current problems and start working on the root causes.
This is fantastic and why the voters gave a breath taking mandate to the CLP!
And in terms of any document that comes out of the Bermuda Triangle of Tax payers fund “Menzies School of Alleged Health Research”, who cares???? What does that place actually do????
This measure may work for Europeans, but nobody else.
Fining Aboriginal nuisance drinkers and stand-over merchants sounds good, but how are you going to make them pay? They will give alternative names and addresses and move to a new drinking camp.
Even if you identify them accurately, they will not pay their fines. If you imprison them, then the taxpayer has to meet the cost of lodging as well, which will make them marginally healthier for the next bout of drinking. This is never a deterrent.
Some academic believes drinkers must be warned about the health implications of alcohol abuse. Somebody please put this princess somewhere she can do no harm.
Robyn Lambley wants therapy. You pay for it, Jackie. Perhaps your Latte club members will contribute.
Seriously, one third of the NT population is marginalised by government and has been since 1978; so of course, increasingly, they anaesthetise with alcohol. This is actually what happens when you refuse to recognise or communicate human beings, regardless of race.
The original Liquor Commissioner, Ian Pitman, was a professional in this arena, which is why the first administration was a success. Bumbling bureaucrats and politicians have managed to create a disaster area that effects the innocent along with the guilty.
The first move should have been to cease harassing normal drinkers by demanding ID. This is pure WEFfery and does not belong in Australia.
Secondly, the restriction means one part of the population covers its fortnight budgetary shortfall by buying Jack Danials and later selling for double the price. This is a virtual NT industry. Pretending this seldom occurs is part of the problem because the most determined drinkers access this black-market and it is the kids and the reduced grocery supply who suffer.
Finally, give up on prisons. Apart from remand, this achieves nothing and actually creates recidivists. Break free from this absurd tradition and establish rural work centres where convicted prisoners eradicate noxious weeds, have award pay lodged into their accounts and, upon release, provide supervision to enable reentry into the wider community. This also provides work experience, something sorely lacking among many Territorians.
I can tell you one thing for sure; no problem drinkers will risk a return to earning a living.
I say all this tongue-in-cheek. Alcohol abuse has worsened steadily in the more than fifty years I have observed the Top End, and no politician is going to admit this. We will steadfastly make matters worse, It’s a glorious tradition.
The Horse bolted years ago
All of the reasons why it won’t work by people that want to maintain the victimhood theory.
Alcohol addiction is an illness. BDR and floor price do nothing to help the situation. All that floor price changed was the choice of poison. The latest arrest for grog running showed a big collection of spirits including rum which has at least one fight in every bottle. Rum is well known for causing aggressive behaviour and has become a drink of choice since cask wine was priced out of the market. The other effect of floor price was to decimate finances quicker before children got food. This has a flow on effect such as the break-ins and armed robberies in Katherine and Alice. Every police crackdown has been little more than an exercise in herding cats. The problems always move to the place where police resources are temporarily depleted. We need to give the government space to implement measures to reduce the current problems and start working on the root causes.