Australia's largest mining city plagued by public drunkenness

Mount Isa is home to a wealth of mining where personal incomes are well above average, but beneath the resource-rich facade lies an insidious social problem that community leaders say is the worst they've seen in more than 20 years.

Car dealership principal Lee Pullman described witnessing public drunkenness outside his CBD business daily. Unlike other states and territories, public drunkenness is still outlawed in Queensland and a state government inquiry is examining decriminalising public offences such as intoxication, begging and urination.It has received support from human rights advocates, social service groups and other providers who want to see a health-and-welfare response model instead.

An individual can be placed on the register through referral by police, the courts, a doctor or even a family member.Need for rehabilitation The NWQICSS had success with a Return to Country program, which helped people from the NT living rough in Mount Isa who wanted to return to their communities but couldn't afford to.

Very common in regional Australia, has absolutely nothing to do with mining or miners so throwing in “mining” in the tagline when it was nothing to do with miners or the industry is misleading and poor form The hypocrisy of land stewardship / connection can be really frustrating

Don't panic!...soon there'll be an Indigenous voice...that'll fix this issue quick smart!

Have to blow zeros before shift!

Police officers have a responsibility to uphold the law & protect people at risk from law breakers. If someone outside the ABC studios is drunk, urinates in the street & abuses reception staff they would be arrested.

Maybe if they used the BLM movement that would help?

it isnt a miner issue is it, one of those issues the inner city hipsters choose to forget about

By the indigenous or non-indigenous community? Irish or Anglo or European heritage White Australians?

All the fault of colonisation of course.

These socio-economic impacts are the result of the mining sector's existence, hence its responsibility to address.

A mining town... hmmm these guys drink in pubs or at their mates from work's place...not on the rivet banks...... unless they're fishing ... but last time I looked Mt Isa isn't a fishing spot... who's drinking and camping there?

It's not the miners is it?

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