There’s a joke going around Alice Springs and Darwin that the local bottle shops will soon start advertising grog sales of “one short of a Brough”. That is, grog specials will be marketed in packages of $99. That’s because, come Saturday, anyone who buys takeaway p-ss retailing for over $100 will have to produce photo ID.
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Rivers of Grog: Mal Brough’s wedge too far
Why the ministerial backflip on the rivers of grog? A Canberra insider explains.
Tips and rumours
Rivers of grog. Seems the NT CLP party were seen loading up their “rivers of grog” onto the plane on route to the Tiwi Islands restricted area by none other than the PM’s Northern Development Taskforce - will they come forward to make a police statement against the CLP MPs involved? Methinks not.
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Local NT police: we need the permit system
There is a growing groundswell of opinion from bush coppers that the abolition of the permit system on Aboriginal land will be a disaster from a policing point of view, writes Henry Ivey.
An open letter to Noel Pearson
Mr Pearson, You want considered responses and not knee-jerk name-calling, well, here goes.
Territory alcohol blame game a little shy of facts
The blame game about grog on Aboriginal communities is deeply offensive to the 100-plus towns, town camps and communities that have used the law to try and ban alcohol.
