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Lockout Laws In Australia

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The lockout Laws in Sydney are greatly effective in the way that they do exactly what they were put in place to do in that they help lessen the amount of drunk people are on the streets and in bars at later times of the day, greatly reducing fatalities and injuries caused by drunk citizens. These laws were first put in place March 2014 and entail the prohibition of the purchase of takeaway drinks after 10:00 PM, that there is no entering a bar or establishment in the central CBD area for alcohol after 1:30 AM and no purchasing of any alcohol after 3:00 AM. These laws also allow the banning of troublemakers for 48 hours and fines or cell time if these laws are ignored. These new laws are productive in many ways including they help lessen the danger of casualties and fatalities in bar and establishments like, they greatly discourage potential violent acts and spread people out, allowing less police officers are needed to deal with problems, all of which will be explored further in this essay. …show more content…

This quote by Mike Baird should alone prove that the lockout laws are doing exactly what they were made to do as they were put in place to reduce assaults in the CBD. These laws are also reducing the amount of drunk people on the streets of the central CBD area late at night, meaning there is not only less alcohol related assaults taking place, there is also less traffic problems caused by drunk citizens doing unintelligent things and causing traffic holdups or

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