The father of Thomas Kelly, who died after a drunken one-punch attack in Kings Cross in 2012, hasPolice and health professionals support the retention of Sydney's controversial lockout laws.The NSW Young Liberals said the regulations had not enhanced community safety and health outcomes, “but rather created onerous restrictions on free enterprise and further disillusioned young people from their government”.
Cr Forster and Cr Chung said dozens of bars, restaurants and daytime businesses in Kings Cross had been driven out by the “massive decline” in patronage and revenue.“In Darlinghurst, Oxford Street, once a safe and bustling 24-hour economy, is now littered with empty shop fronts and restaurants," their submission said. “And in the CBD, an overseas visitor is unable to order a single whiskey or a cocktail in the bar of an international hotel at one minute past midnight.
“A vibrant night-time economy is about more than alcohol – it includes fitness and sport options, arts and culture, extended shopping and transport choices, food options, and sport,” its submission said. “Rather, more positive action needs to be taken to raise public awareness of the dangers of binge drinking and to change public attitudes to alcohol and acceptance of alcohol abuse,” he said.
_andrew What a wrong and misleading load of clickbait rubbish.
_andrew We pottspointpship will be presenting to the panel on Friday
_andrew Lock out laws has now gone too far..we are not be coming a international city for night life anymore...here I am..Sunday evening time is 845pm and the city dead! Shame of you Sydney..shame of you politicians..shame of of you mayor clever nomore!
_andrew If the intent was to turn Sydney into a dull as fuck city that people use as a punchline, it ha proved a roaring success.
_andrew The laws were put in place to stop young men being killed in violent alcohol-caused deaths. The laws have succeeded in stopping those one punch deaths which also prevents other young men spending their life in jail for stupidity.
_andrew Speak to the emergency doctors in the causality first.