Alcohol in restricated places

NO.

Check the accompanying for additional information Link

Good question after the intervention. Be interesting to know the answer. Pror to that it was confusing enough.

Steve

Gday ,
Technicaly No.
But as Steve said some areas you do travel through a restricted area to get to a Non-restricted area.
eg. You travel through Hermansberg restricted area to Get to Palm Valley, Boggy Hole, Merreenie Loop Road etc.
Where are you talking about?
Cheers

I have a "cellar" in the back of my truck - grog is out of sight (cellar is hidden under the drawers).
Also I can't trust the people I go away with :-)))

You know, this really gets my goat.

Can Aborigines drink alcohol in NON Aboriginal land? Yes they can.

If I take a few stubbies thru "their" land for my personal consumption I'm sure as hell not going to hand it out.

Why can't I enjoy a beer around my campfire?

Where is the discrimination here? There certainly IS a lack of equality in this country.

OK, I'll sit back and wait for the predictable accusations of racism.

Well, what a can I have opened up here. I am heading up to the Cape in August and just wondered what was the present law re alcohol was and all I have done is opened a lot of racist comment.

Can I or not take alcohol up through the Cape for my own consumption.

Yes or no!!!!!!!

Regards

JD

It's ABOUT RESPECT !


If the Communities do not want grog there, then I will respect it.

I do not have a problem about it.

Nor, am I that pig headed, that I will do anything to try and get around it.
I can relax without grog, around a campfire.

My only hope is that the dry places are clearly posted, as it can get embarrasing, or do we have to do our homework, and check with the Land Council ?

Cheers
Bucky

All
You need to get on to the State/Territory websites and get the right info.

I see no "personal use" provision in the attached website.
http://www.mcmc.qld.gov.au/community/search/restricted.php

Cheers

To travel through aboriginal land you need a permit and these vary from place to place. Last May I travelled via the GCR from Perth to the Gold Coast and required two permits - one for the WA section to the NT border and one from the NT border to Yulara. Both stated my obligations involving alcohol. On the WA side I got a transit permit which basically forbade me from straying off the the main road in the WA side with a couple of exceptions. About 200 kms before Warburton I entered Ngaanyatjarra land. I decided to stay at the Warburton Roadhouse for the night which was inside their shire. The roadhouse was an enclosed site about 2 kms away from the aboriginal community of Warburton .

After settling in I wandered out to the barbecue area with a beer in my hand. Staying at the RH was a WA Govt crew surveying camel numbers and the woman in charge of the crew immediately challenged me about the alcohol I was drinking. She told me that this was illegal and that I was liable for a $5000 fine. I asked her where she got her info from and asked her to prove that what she said was actually correct. To do this I asked her to produce her permit to be in this territory (I had my permit in my glove box). Embarrassingly for her (in front of her staff) she couldn't do produce the permit. I showed her mine and asked her to show me where, on the permit, that I couldn't sit down and have a beer in this particular place. (The permit said that while I might like to refrain from drinking alcohol, it never said that I could not do so). There were no aboriginal locals on site (and nor would there be). I was in transit, I wasn't onselling to the locals and I was enjoying my right to have a quiet beer - legally according to the permit. The looks she got from her crew suggested that she had told them the same lies that she tried to pass off to me. I carried on drinking my beer with no repercussions

So the answer is simple. Get the permit (if you need it), read it carefully and if it says no alcohol may be transported through or be brought into this area then follow it! Transit permits usually allow the transportation of alcohol through indigenous areas but with caveats. The main idea is to prevent the indigenous locals in some communities accessing alcohol.