Australia Blog: News Snippets

September 08, 2003

News Snippets

Just a couple of things that I saw in the paper today:

Finals football is in full swing with Rugby League finals due to start next weekend and the AFL already done with the first round of finals.

Port Adelaide were favourites to beat the Sydney Swans at home but lost by two goals. When asked how the team felt after the match, acting Port captain Warren Tredea said:

"We are dead set spewing about the way we played today."

Who said Aussie athletes weren't articulate?

And in other news, it is now illegal for children under the age of 18 to get their nipples and genitals pierced in Queensland. Piercing shops who break the law face hefty fines of up to A$3000 and even jail time, more if the kid is under the influence at the time. Obviously the police are going to have difficulty enforcing the law - perhaps they're hoping young boy/girlfriends will dial 000 when they spy the offending piercings.

Bars in the Valley could now stay open til 7am if a new plan before the city council goes ahead. Alcohol sales would still end at 5am, but the bars will stay open an extra two hours and offer coffee and breakfasts in an effort to stop the mass exodus of partiers onto city streets at 5am, where fights and property damage are more likely to take place.

Posted by Chris on September 8, 2003 07:36 PM Brisbane Time
Category: Oz in the News

Comments

Serving breakfast is a great idea, just what you need after a long night on the piss.

Posted by: Chris on September 10, 2003 05:57 AM

Yeah I was pretty happy about that. Beats the dodgy kebab @ 3am.

Posted by: Chris on September 11, 2003 11:36 AM

Well the two Chrises just freaked me out! Firstly I thought BnA Chris was replying to himself, which is 'perfectly sane' if you ask me [which you didn't, but I'm more than capable of asking myself these kinds of questions, and, er, answering them! Ahem...], and I thought he was being sarcastic, so now I'm all confused again [again, this is not difficult to do!].

I think it's a weird idea, because while a good 'fry up' is just what you need 'the morning after', but surely not the morning 'during', I mean, while you're still hammered and what-not? That's when you're still [albeit naively!] thinking, I wannanotha drinks I duz! I'z nots pisched I'z needs aznudder beer/vodka/whatthehellisthisshitI'mdrinkinganyway

AND, while I'm all for extended hours, does this not mean, the crowd are gonna stick around [and sure, not imbibe anymore alcohol and get more pished and obnoxious and, in some cases, potentially violent, etc...], and there's gonna be the same onslaught of folk 'onto the streets', just a little later? Or, will people really go, 'ooh, cool, coffee!, just what I need'?!

Methinks those who want or think they want alcohol will leave/pour onto the same streets as they were going to anyway, and those who wanna 'sit down for breakfast' are of no danger to the general public anyway - they're just plain weird...

BUT, I've been wrong before [just the once or twice... ;-)]

Nightowl Ging

Posted by: Ging on September 11, 2003 05:39 PM

I think the idea is that alcohol sales will still stop at the same time (3-ish), so folks won't be able to drink more, but they won't HAVE to leave all at the same time. You're right tho, once the pish stops flowing, those are most likely to cause trouble are probably going to hit the street, whether the place is closing or not.

Posted by: Chris on September 11, 2003 10:38 PM