why not make a video of how badly affected people get when under the extreme influence of the demon drink, then show it to them ad nauseam.

or get a group of these mindless mongrels together and get them away from the rest of us on some deserted cold island south of Tassie for a year and get them to cooperate surviving together, any selfish mindless actions to be severely punished.

why not get peer pressure to show them as they really are, very gross and uncool.

What right has Govt to impose laws on what we drink or smoke. If they weren't imposing taxes on us under the lie of making our lives better, perhaps we would not need the drugs to etherise Govt oppression.

The 'culture' of alcohol has changed markedly in the past 35 years as has the culture of law and order. Availability has never been easier and the product is inexpensive. The lowering of drinking age to 18, the "ME" generations of youngsters brought up with much less respect for authority and the watering down of police powers and SURPRISE we have a big problem.

For starters - alcohol should be more expensive and harder to buy. We need "Booze Police" in hotels and clubs - not just a random raid once in a while but every weekend at least, making sure that responsible service and age checks are being carried out. Venues should have a lock-out time no later than 2am and closing at 3. Enough of this 5am bullsh1t.

Underage drinkers should be thrown in drunk tanks to sober up. Quit the pussy-footing about because the darlings are "children". Then book them for their behaviour before giving them and Mummy and/or Daddy a good dressing down. I'm tired of all these adolescents with more rights than everyone else and I'll wager, so is most of the adult population. Out of control underage "party animals" - give them tear gas and police dogs.

OK - now that the msg is out, let's talk the psychoanalysis and counselling and therapy for the unfortunate fools for whom the booze is now master.

Unless we as a society can rein in some of the laxity which has enabled a lot of the described behaviour to develop and to some extent not only be tolerated but lauded - there will be no change.

Like many laws, the laws aimed at reducing BD attack the rights of 98% of the population, (decent law abiding citizens) while the 2% they are aimed at simply find ways around them.

I think it's about time good honest folk be allowed to go about their day to day lives, without being restricted by laws aimed at the rat bags of society, many of whom simply don't give a toss.

A prime example is that I, one who has never been a problem drinker, can't even buy a round for my mates, thanks to the laws that restrict the number of drinks one can buy at any one time.

It's a joke!

...Piss-heads must be banished to the outer darkness of society, along with-cone heads and all such drug-#*%@!, and allow normal society to progress forward, not backwards.

Yep, the old 6 O'clock swill may not have been such a bad thing after all.