Liquor

Popping the cork on alcohol content

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A Tamborine Mountain winery is encouraging restaurants and bars to disclose the alcohol content of the wines they are serving to their customers.

Tippling again at Tipplers

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Alcohol was flowing freely at Tipplers at the weekend during the first of several council-organised monthly concerts -- but this time the councillors so desperate to rid the island of so-called 'dr

Call for junk food, alcohol ad rethink

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Health groups have used one of the most gluttonous days of the year to call for restrictions on junk food and alcohol advertising.

Calls for more police

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Brisbane: Calls for police numbers in the CBD and Fortitude Valley entertainment precincts to be boosted immediately are growing louder after a parliamentary inquiry found it would help reduce alco

Fight for Sunday liquor trading

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Bottle shop owners are fighting to remain open on Easter Sunday, saying laws governing their right to trade are ambiguous, conflicting and confusing.

Kristina Keneally to ride on the front line

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Premier Kristina Keneally has accepted a challenge from police officers to spend a night with them on the mean streets of Sydney and witness first-hand the carnage of booze-fuelled violence.

Kristina Keneally won't back the emergency service 'wowsers'

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Police officers said the State Government will have blood on its hands for alcohol-fuelled late-night attacks on emergency services workers after Premier Kristina Keneally described them as "wowser

Media Statement - Easter trading for liquor and gaming licensees

Minister for Tourism and Fair Trading
The Honourable Peter Lawlor
30/03/2010

Easterfest Toowoomba to include church service at Irish Club Hotel

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Hotel patrons will be able to get a taste of Jesus as well as Guinness when a Queensland church takes its service into the local Irish bar this Easter.

Parents hire off-duty officers to stop young troublemakers

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Parents are hiring armed Queensland police, and police vehicles, for teen parties.