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Prohibition of alcohol

We’re drunken violent yobbos, no matter the advertising

National Times / Tuesday, 19 January 2010

Getting wasted on Australia Day isn’t some inherent national right that the liquor industry must defend, says Jeremy Bass. The businesses serving the booze — from pubs to supermarket grog shops — need to widen their tunnel vision.

Intervention lets Territory grog runners walk free

Crikey / Bob Gosford / Tuesday, 3 November 2009

Canberra is weak as piss on grog in the Northern Territory, and several NT Magistrates are angry that their sentencing options for grog-runners have been seriously compromised by the Intervention.

Booze is not just a black issue

Crikey / Monday, 9 July 2007

I do not agree with what the PM has done in the Territory’s Aboriginal communities, nor did most of the Aboriginal health workers I was with last week in western NSW, writes Dr Rod MacQueen, an addiction medicine physician who works in indigenous communities.