Aussie town bans liquor sales


icon"Alcohol related crime" is on the rise in Australia, so one Aussie town has decided to ban it for everyone. Well, it's not a total ban, Aussies will still have an 8-hour window in which to purchase liquor for off premises consumption.

From today, licensees in Derby will be bound by restrictions on the quantities and types of takeaway alcohol they can sell and when they can sell it.

The new rules, handed down by the director of Liquor Licensing, will be trailed for a year and assessed in six months.

They include limiting the sale of full-strength liquor to between noon and 8:00pm and limits to the quantities of wine that can be purchased.

Anyone willing to bet that when they "assess" the progress in six months they haven't made a dent in "alcohol related crimes"? Then they will have to decide whether or not to continue down this road of temperance. If history is any indication, they'll continue to limit the quantities, put a licensing scheme in place for private citizens, and eventually pass step by step bans on all hard alcohol.


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And then bootlegging will come into vogue, and the law will have to stop it, though dollars to donuts there will be cops buying the illegal product too... and there will be cops on the take, and since Australia doesn't allow guns the bootleggers will get illegal ones and then be committing even MORE scandalous crimes by posessing forbidden weapons...

Posted by: Mollbot at March 30, 2004 4:56 AM

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