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Licensees warn club lockout fuels violence

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The most hyped measure to reduce alcohol-fuelled violence on Queensland streets have been labelled a failure by the bar owners who are forced to lock their doors every night.

Cooly is the pub with no peer

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The Coolangatta Hotel is officially the best pub in Australia but local drinkers say it always been.

Push to double poker machines bet limit rejected

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Queensland pubs tried to cry poor last year and allow gamblers to pour more money into poker machines at the same time other states did the opposite.

But the Queensland Hotels Association's

Full strength grog faces axe in bid to curb violence

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Drinkers face an unprecedented crackdown, including bans on glass and full strength beer, as Queensland struggles with a spiralling rate of alcohol fuelling violence and crime.

The State Gov

Alcohol sponsor ban to cost Australian sport $300m

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Australia's premier sporting codes would be stripped of up to $300 million a year in alcohol sponsorship under a radical blueprint to fight disease and help people live longer.