Saturday, Jan 24, 2015 at 15:54
The great thing about threads like this are, you can find out the demographic of your
forum readers by their response.
EG: you can work out, who are educated, who are ignorant, who are arrogant, who are racist, and who are just plain stupid.
Taking alcohol into communities that have strict restriction is just pain stupid, the ramification's are a very high price to pay, these restrictions are in place to protect the vulnerable.
Why do some communities have a social club or in some cases a permit to obtain alcohol, the answer is simple, these clubs are put in place to stop grog running. Lets take Gunbalanya for example, the club has restricted hours and restricted on site sales, this keeps the locals at Gunbalanya and prevents most grog running, Grog running has very expensive penalties if caught. If you get barred from the club then you are also barred from the clubs and hotels in
Jabiru as
well, so the nearest place for alcohol is close to
Darwin, hence some grog running.
If you take alcohol into restricted areas you are considered a grog runner and penalize as such, ignorance is no excuse and definitely falls on deaf ears.
However is it bad to give old mate a beer if you are out side a restricted area ?? why not, that is purely your decision to make, it;s your beer you can do as you please.
does it make old man crook ?? yes does it make us white fellas crook ?? yes.
I employ an old fella ( Thompson ) from Gunbalanya he is considered family to us and we treat him so, he is employed through CDEP, they pay his first 18 hours per week and we pay him the rest up to 40 hours, plus supper and tax, he is a hobby artist and makes money from that too.
CDEP pay there share in to his normal key card account, he accesses this for his day to day expenses, we pay him into a No Humbug account this account ensures that others can not take his money or humbug him for it, this account needs both his and my signature, the monies he makes from his painting also goes into this account, last year he saved over $ 8000 for the wet season.
With the money he has worked hard for and earned, he has become a member of the golf club ( the only take away alcohol in the region) he freely buys his beer and we sit at night and have a beer or two together, we never open one before 5 pm and he sticks to this rule when I am not
home, we have formed a trust, he sometimes has family over and we have put some rules in place.
Family member must be sober when they arrive, they can only have 3 beers each and if they give me any humbug they get banned for 3 months, Thommo is pretty health for a 61 year old and sometimes a bugger when he does get drunk ( never at my place) but it works for him, unfortunately not everyone in this community are the same.
I could go on but I am now going to have a beer,I hope this answers some questions.
Cheers.
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