NSB:

...# The problems are almost unsolvable, someone or something has to be done about it before future generations think that abuse is the norm. # ...Abuse is the norm!

...With community attitudes so compliant towards acceptance of drinking, the hard options are the only alternative. NT is in the process of constructing a brand new, state of the art prison. The new prison will be constructed at a cost of $500million; that is, half a billion dollars! This then flags the unavoidable Government approach to the social cost of alcohol, and associated crime such as DV.

...When 80% of the prison population in Darwin are Aboriginal, then one could safely say, the new prison will be a forced drying-out venue for alcoholics from the Aboriginal population in the NT.
When also, alcohol abuse in the broader Australian community is seen as a “right”, with binge drinking a Saturday night imperative, IMO prisons remains the most effective answer to the problem of crime associated with alcohol. Prisons serve as the most effective weapon against alcohol induced crime and violence, by removing the offender from a society he/she little respects, giving him/her time to reflect on personal behavioural issues and their consequences.

...A huge tax on alcohol is a simple means to a complicated end, for Governments to use if they genuinely wish to improve safety in the home, and reduce DV. Simply tax alcohol out of existence