The New South Wales Government’s crack-down on under-age drinking has netted its first victim, with a Riverina hotel receiving a licence suspension. New laws concerning the supply of alcohol to minors came into effect last December, and the OLGR has since conducted 515 audits of licensed premises as part of a “blitz to crack down” […]
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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The Bureau of Crime Statistics & Research (BOCSAR) last week admitted an error in reporting over the drop in assaults statistics that emerged from its report on Sydney CBD and Kings Cross trading restrictions. Speaking with PubTIC, BOCSAR’s Dr Don Weatherburn clarified that it is not the Bureau’s role to judge the laws, but simply
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
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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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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Brisbane Council has reiterated its objection to the proposed lock-out and trading restrictions boding for Queensland licensed venues. Following the new State Government’s quick re-introduction of the issue of 1am lock-outs and 3am cut-off last week, Council has responded, labelling it “ill-advised and a disastrous outcome for the night-time economy”. Attorney-General Yvette D’Ath flagged the
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Queensland’s new Labor Government may not get the chance to ram through flawed restrictions on licensed venues, as it battles its own issues on violence and anti-social behaviour. Late last week the newly-elected State Government under Annastacia Palaszczuk reiterated its intentions for a ‘Newcastle-style’ gamut of restrictions on venues, the supposed benefits of which were
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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,
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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