Alcohol in the Alice: the drink destroying a cityIn Alice Springs, locals drink double the national average of alcohol per year. Therefore it’s no surprise that 70-90% of the assaults in the town are alcohol-related. How do we stop the grog? asks Russell Goldflam.
Alcohol-fuelled violence
Stopping the Violence … and the traffic in Alice Springs
Last Friday morning I witnessed the most powerful and affecting public event I’ve yet seen in my short stay in Alice Springs. Hundreds of men and boys chanting “Stop the violence!” as they marched shoulder-to-shoulder down the main street of town.
Political snippets: A neighbourly disinterest
Two of Australia’s near neighbours are close to a state of war and what can you read about on the home web pages this morning of Australia’s newspapers? Not a word at all about the frightening deterioration in relations between Thailand and Cambodia.
