Sydney minds its manners as lifting of lockout laws declared a success | smh_andrew
there would be a "visible police presence" on the streets for the first weekend following the partial lifting of lockout laws. Yet there appeared to be few police patrolling Sydney's late-night strips apart from Oxford Street.
, the laws banned venues in Sydney's CBD and Kings Cross from admitting new guests after 1.30am and selling alcohol after 3am.Credit:The restrictions were introduced in 2014 following incidents of street violence that led to the death of two young men. "We are on the record and do feel over the long term we will see an increase in alcohol-related presentations to our emergency department," he said. "As we've said, it won't necessarily happen overnight but the international evidence shows that the extension of alcohol trading will correlate to an increase in overall alcohol-related presentations."
Driving along rain-slicked city streets, taxi driver Gus said there were no queues outside bars, pubs and clubs.Many pubs at Circular Quay were half-empty, manned by bored bouncers staring at their phones, but a rousing rendition of Billy Joel'sInside the packed pub, Chris Rowse said he hoped people would behave themselves now the lockouts had been partially scrapped, although he added: "You wouldn't find me out after 2am.
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