Australia limits alcohol sales in Alice Springs amid crime wave

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who met politicians, police and community leaders in Alice Springs earlier on Tuesday, said the steps on alcohol had to be seen in a broader context. Read more at straitstimes.com.

SYDNEY - Australia will limit the sale of alcohol and consider wider bans to control spiralling alcohol-fuelled violence in a central region, in the run-up to aThe new rules in the town of Alice Springs, 2,000km north-west of Sydney, and the surrounding region, mean that the sale of takeaway alcohol will be restricted on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, and sales will be reduced on other days.

Mr Albanese said a report due on Feb 1 would consider legal changes, including moving to a situation where communities would need to opt out of alcohol bans. “What a Voice to Parliament will do is to have a representative body that is able to advocate and give advice to Parliament and to government,” he said.

 

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