Alcohol restrictions on Cape York

Hi Rob.
I saw the news item on TV last night.Perhaps they should have had a little less grog & more fuel on board.They lost their money & grog & worst of all, caught no fish!!
Vince

Rob where did this happen north of Jardine.

All the best
Eric

Thanks for your warning Rob.

Isn't it amazing that in this day and age we can still come up with draconian laws in favour of a minority and against another cultures norm.

These laws do not work and the prepetrators of alcohol abuse in the aboriginal communities will just go elsewhere to wipe themsleves off and cause trouble.

This debate reached a crescendo in Alice Springs some years ago when a local suggested an ID card for people to purchase and consume alcohol. To my mind there was some merit in the suggestion. Licenced premises on communities with the rest of community areas being declared DRY has also been mooted of late to shift the problem back on to the communities. Like drugs and gambling, the government only fiddles around the edges, as too much taxation revenue is derived from other peoples addiction and misery.

Luckily I do not have an addiction(apart form ExplorOz.). So going to the Cape without alcohol isnt an issue with me.

I think its sensational positive for tourism... Good on em... That will get the people in...

Agree, the bans are turning those towns around.