By: kczurek
26/03/2008
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| If Politicians are thinking of raising the Legal Age for Drinking... then they should also SERIOUSLY consider raising the Legal Age for Voting back to 21yrs of Age..If they don't think an 18yr old is either Mature enough or Resposible enough to Drink... then how can they EVER be Mature enough or Responsible enough to Vote...as Voting not only involves their own Lives...but the Lives of Millions of other People... |
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By: marge@y7mail.com
26/03/2008
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| I agree plus I also think the government should take a good look at the opening and closing times of any pub or any place of that matter that serves or sells alchol. I say go back to the days of pubs closing at 6 or 10 at night they didnt open until late plus raise the age to 21 for drinking, voteing and driving (L's) |
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By: dianneday52au
26/03/2008
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| I concur Marge I believe we only dropped the legal age limit so we could send 18yr old males to the Vietnam war and if they were going to represent our country in war they wanted to be able to drink legally!! |
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By: stealth666@y7mail.com
26/03/2008
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| I believe that if any person regardless of age comes to Police attention whether it be due to be a public nuisance, fighting or domestic violence etc. then they should be banned from ever drinking alcohol again. You don't need alcohol to survive and it should be a privilege for those well behaved citizens. Let's face it, the one's who get aggro and can't handle their alcohol will be the one's to jump up and down and disagree with me as they can never see the error of their ways. |
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By: ccrowau
26/03/2008
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Yes, it is not the age of the binge drinker that is the problem but a drinking culture within Australia that needs changing. Binge drinking is one of the rites of passage into adulthood for many.
ie. "I can and will drink, as much as I like."
I see binge drinking in all age groups not just 18-21 year old people. Change the habits of all Australians not just one age group. |
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By: sylvs10
26/03/2008
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| I agree with you about changing the opening and closing times of hotels/bars. I don't think it's about age limits, it's more about the amount of hours you can spend in a hotel drinking, then come out drunk and/or aggressive and cause trouble. Many young people don't go out until 10.00 or 11.00pm then spend all night drinking, finish in the early morning, have a sleep, then climb back into a car to go to work etc while still legally drunk. This definitely needs to be looked at. |
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By: x9_gm2
26/03/2008
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As for raising the drinking age to 21 or whatever, that isn't a solution. Look at America, I mean, nobody under 21 there drinks... surely.
In France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and others, the drinking age is 16. Do these countries have massive alcohol problems? It's clear that it's not the age at which they're allowed to do so, it's the society.
We need to look at why these people are binge drinking. Why? It's socially acceptable. The real solution is a campaign to make binge drinking socially unattractive. That is the only effective way the problem will be solved. Not by raising an age limit.
Also, the non-solution of raising the age limit is completely ignoring the vast majority of 18-21 year olds that drink responsibly. Why? These
In addition to this, here's two studies on the topic regarding minimum drinking age that are well worth reading:
http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/YouthIssues/10463 48726.html
http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/YouthIssues/10535 20190.html |
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By: dr8g0n
26/03/2008
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yea, yea, yea
thats right close pubs at 10pm they will just do what my dad did come home & drink
DOH
Geeze it must be good to feel superiour to everyone that is 21 & under geeze you need to get of high horse's
Pubs closed at 10 but they had such a skin full because they were closing soon that they use to drink & drive, does anyone remember that or is that convently forgetten now that you all sit in ivory towers & judge everyone under 21.
I want to know what generation it is that never drank to excess, never drove after they had been drinking, never had crimes committed because everyone was soooooo saintly.
geeze get of their backs they are not all binge drinkers under 21. |
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By: nw8hillbilly
26/03/2008
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| the drinking age was lowered from 21 to 18 for a variety of reasons, not the least being the difficulty in assessing the actual age of the drinker, the often touted reasoning was that 18, 19,20 year olds were drinking anyway. Now the same situation exists despite proof of age cards for 15, 16 and 17 year olds. Annual schoolie behaviour demonstrates very clearly that a percentage of young people lack the emotional maturity to drink safely or moderately but then again so do a large number of adults. The main concerns really are liqour industry generated, the emergence in popularity of shoo ters and the consumption of higher alcohol drinks, bourbons and rums. Hotels encourage binge drinking as a norm and actively pursue the youth market |
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By: ardnas60
29/03/2008
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| What I would like to know is Where do these young kids get the money to buy all this liquor? A night or two in the cells might get the message through though I doubt it very much. Maybe fining their parents may give them a shake up about what their kids are up to. |
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By: daminnoakley
12/05/2008
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It's all well and good for people over 21 to say you should raise the drinking age. They already drink and go clubbing and stuff, why can't I do that too?
You're all so hypocritical. |
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By: patriotaus
12/05/2008
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| tools that go too far and don't know their limit will do so no matter what the legal drinking age is. |
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By: unclefatso01
12/05/2008
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| If a kid of 19 can be sent in to a war zone then that kid is old enough to drink and vote. Making access to booze more difficult for the under age drinkers and not givin t_rds like that Corey the publicity they get might have a better result. |
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By: ol_whal
12/05/2008
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<<<I concur Marge I believe we only dropped the legal age limit so we could send 18yr old males to the Vietnam war and if they were going to represent our country in war they wanted to be able to drink legally!!>>>
That's true dianneday52au, we kicked up such a stink about being conscripted to go to war that they changed the rules, sometimes I think we should have kept our mouths shut. |
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By: aquaman609
12/05/2008
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| 21 !!! |
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By: boufemous
14/05/2008
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| The 18 year old vote came in as an effort to combat conscription for Vietnam. Now we reap the benefit of 18 year old drink/drivers that haven't got a clue about politics but vote - most probably for their boyfriend/girlfriend rather than standing candidates. Too hard to repeal this nonsensical situation but for the record - drink and vote at 21, in my opinion. |
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By: jaykaye_09
14/05/2008
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'Now we reap the benefit of 18 year old drink/drivers that haven't got a clue about politics but vote'
-boufemous
As opposed to the widely informed 'adult' population? Ha! |
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By: duurrrhhhhhhhhhh
14/05/2008
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| Go live in communist China you morons, they have the police state you want. Have a beer & calm down. You people need to get out more. |
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By: nessa_sarily_so
14/05/2008
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Yes yes all those under 21 are pure evil...spawns of satan.
For crying out loud how about we ban anyone over 50 from drinking...we didn't want to listen to their dribble anyway. |
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By: gizmo_2655
16/05/2008
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| All that is actually required is a clear, easy to follow definition of "intoxication" written into law. This will allow bar staff to actually enforce the "responsible service of alcohol" act. |
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By: gizmo_2655
16/05/2008
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" want to know what generation it is that never drank to excess, never drove after they had been drinking, never had crimes committed because everyone was soooooo saintly"
My generation lol
we're perfect |
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By: ginandtonic1963
22/05/2008
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| legal drinking age should go back up to 21.....the way these kids think they are "hero's" when they hit the p i s s is discusting. they obviosly never got taught good manners....everything in moderation........ |
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By: nessa_sarily_so
22/05/2008
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Because 21 year olds are so mature! Pffft.
If they made the drinking age by level of maturity there would be alot of thirsty 35 year old men. |
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By: jeannentwig
24/05/2008
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The legal DRINKING age is birth.
The legal ethanol drug taking age on the other hand is 18. Mind you the legal drug taking age is also birth when people dose their kids up with baby panadol, ritalin, and other OTC and Prescription drugs, and caffeine. It's even 'legal' to give your kids alcohol in your own home under the age of 18 and many do.
I wonder how I ever managed to bring up 4 children without all the legal pharmaceuticals, even vaccinations, very little caffeinated 'drinks' and still have very healthy kids!
Our'modern' kids grow up with drugs....they reach for them whenever they can (and if they don't reach for them the parents do). They SEE the parents, friends etc. taking (mainly) the drug ethyl alcohol as if it really was a drink, and we wonder why they grow up thinking the same thing?
Children see, children do, and upping the age of alcohol drug consumption won't make one iota of difference to whether they get hold of it or not. Even George Bush Jnr's two girls were caught consuming Alcohol 3 or 4 years beore they were legally allowed to do so. |
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By: jeannentwig
24/05/2008
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| Oops...what I meant by the legal DRINKING age, was that a drink is water, milk and juice. Alcohol is a drug in the drink. |
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