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INDUSTRY GROUP CALLS FOR GOVERNMENT TO NOT “LOCK THEM OUT”

The newly-formed alliance calling itself Our Nightlife Queensland continues its charge in the campaign to force the State Government to include industry in regulation decisions. Our Nightlife Queensland (ONQ) yesterday issued a call to Government to meet to discuss the proposed changes to liquor licensing laws that it says will “cripple the State’s half-billion dollar […]

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FARE NOT FAIR, JUST FEAR: AHA

News & Releases / Clyde Mooney

The Australian Hotels Association WA has slammed the latest ‘Alcohol Poll’ by FARE (Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education) as “distorted” and guilty of “fear-mongering” around alcohol consumption. The AHA WA says the questions in the latest survey, which uses a cash reward commercial service to garner and encourage respondents, is both the wrong methodology

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VIOLENCE RATES HALVED AMID LIQUOR ACCORD ‘SCHOOLS’ PROGRAM

News & Releases / Clyde Mooney

More reports have surfaced on impressive drops in rates of violence due to cooperation between venues and police. NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) statistics show Sydney North precincts of North Sydney and Mosman experienced only 35 incidents in licensed premises last year (to September), which represents a 48.5 per cent improvement on

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BOSCAR ‘LOCKOUT’ REPORT SPARKS TYPICAL SELECTIVE REPORTING

News & Releases / Clyde Mooney

The interim report released late last week by the Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research has been widely misrepresented by the usual suspects in sensationalist media. Speaking today with PubTIC, a BOCSAR spokesperson was quick to point out that last week’s report is just an initial snapshot, and significant further research will be required to

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NOT TAKING THE PISS: TALK OF PEE REPELLENTS

News & Releases / Clyde Mooney

A stain on most licensed venues, Queensland is clamping down on public urination, fighting back with the Offenses Act and talk of pee-repellent paint. The issue of people relieving themselves in public has long been associated with the night-time drinking culture. And surprisingly enough, several States do not actually have a law against it. However,

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‘DRACONIAN’ LIQUOR LAWS NEED REVIEW: LAWYER

News & Releases / Clyde Mooney

The new laws implemented by the NSW OLGR on 1 March included the tightening of ‘intoxication’ loopholes, in an attempt to stop publicans relying upon a defence of reasonable steps to avoid the offence of allowing intoxication. One of a raft of measures that took effect this month, the “Steps to prevent intoxication on licensed

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BOCSAR FIGURES SHOW MANLY ON BEST BEHAVIOUR

News & Releases / Clyde Mooney

One of Sydney’s hot-spots for violence has recorded another big drop in incidents, after more than seven years “continuous improvement” by stakeholders. As the punitive licensing conditions befalling Sydney’s CBD and Kings Cross come further into question, the beachside suburb of Manly stood to see an unwanted backwash from the early closing city venues. Yet

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NEW LICENSING RULES BEGIN

News & Releases / Clyde Mooney

March sees the introduction of the final stages of the Liquor Act Review by the NSW OLGR and WA’s DRGL roll out its URS, with mixed blessings for licensees. In an attempt to encourage its Multi-Occasion Extended Trading Authorisation (MOETA), Government has dropped the $1000 application fee for 2015. The MOETA system allows regional venues

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INDUSTRY GROUP CALLS FOR GOVERNMENT TO NOT “LOCK THEM OUT”

FARE NOT FAIR, JUST FEAR: AHA

VIOLENCE RATES HALVED AMID LIQUOR ACCORD ‘SCHOOLS’ PROGRAM

BOSCAR ‘LOCKOUT’ REPORT SPARKS TYPICAL SELECTIVE REPORTING

NOT TAKING THE PISS: TALK OF PEE REPELLENTS

‘DRACONIAN’ LIQUOR LAWS NEED REVIEW: LAWYER

BOCSAR FIGURES SHOW MANLY ON BEST BEHAVIOUR

NEW LICENSING RULES BEGIN

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