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New rules raise bar for grocery liquor sales

The Liquor Licensing Authority has quietly lifted the bar that small grocery stores must jump over if they want to sell alcohol. The move is in response to mounting public concerns about proliferating liquor outlets. In two...

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:00:08 +1200

Putting the cork back in the bottle

With a little help from a local crime wave, the residents of the Manukau suburb of Clendon have turned around what seemed like a juggernaut of liquor liberalisation. Liquor outlets in the city have roughly trebled since the Sale...

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:00:02 +1200

100 drunk teens attack Australian police

WERRIBEE - Police were forced to take cover as up to 100 drunken teenagers pelted them with rocks and bottles when they tried to break up a wild party advertised on social networking website MySpace. The father of 18-year-old Mark...

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:00:00 +1200

People power stops liquor licence

An application for a liquor licence in Cannons Creek was rejected in the Porirua District Court yesterday. The application by Bhaveeni Dahya for a new outlet faced stiff protest from community groups which spoke of the high cost...

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:00:00 +1200

Drinking age back on MPs' agenda

The National Government will look again at raising the legal drinking age from 18 to 20 this year. New Justice Minister Simon Power, who voted to keep the age at 18 when it last came up in 2006, said it would be considered again in...

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:00:14 +1200

'No one told me about the risks'

In the first 9 weeks of her pregnancy before she knew she was pregnant, Karyn Tunnicliff celebrated her own and a friend's 21st birthdays. "We did nothing but drink for five days," she says. "I found out a week after I was 21...

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:00:00 +1200

Higher death rate among girls linked to liberal liquor laws

The struggling health sector took another knock in November with news that the death rate for teenage girls had risen. Alcohol was the main culprit. All other age and gender groups registered declining death rates in Statistics...

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:00:00 +1200

Garth George: Time for more sober approach to alcohol

"If alcohol were invented today," said an internationally renowned physician a few years ago, "it would be available only on prescription, and then only from hospital pharmacies." But, he added, alcohol remained the safest, most...

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:00:00 +1200

Amy Winehouse drops drug case appeal

OSLO, Norway - British singer Amy Winehouse dropped her appeal in a Norwegian drug case and will accept a fine for illegal marijuana possession in 2007, her attorney said. Winehouse and her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, were arrested...

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:29:42 +1200

Govt to look at tougher drink-drive limits

A lower blood-alcohol limit for drivers will be back on the Government's agenda soon as part of a new road safety strategy. Justice Minister Simon Power said the strategy would "address the issue" of New Zealand's legal limit of...

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:00:20 +1200

Victims of justice system's failure

"Jack has 125 previous convictions from the age of 22," writes Wellington alcohol and drug counsellor Roger Brooking in a report to a court on a recent client (name changed) . "He also had another six convictions at age 17 for...

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:00:12 +1200

Pregnant mum went for help

Having a baby made the difference that no judge or doctor could have made for one Auckland mother. Helen (not her real name), now 35, grew up in a world awash with alcohol. Her alcoholic father left home when she was 4. Her...

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:00:00 +1200

Government to boost drug and alcohol support in prison

The new National Government has promised to double the places in prison drug and alcohol treatment units from 500 to 1000 by 2011, and new Justice Minister Simon Power says he would like to get treatment for more offenders before...

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:00:00 +1200

Cherry Parker: Crack open a new approach

The problems that alcohol causes are heightened at night, at weekends - and especially during the Christmas holiday break. It is the most difficult time of the year for the grossly intoxicated person to get help. Doctors, therapists,...

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:00:00 +1200

Calum Penrose and Daniel Newman: Tackling South Auckland's social ills

Mention 'South Auckland' and it usually evokes a negative response. The expanse of Auckland south of the Tamaki River is synonymous with a stereotype that flatters no one - least of all its more than 300,000 law-abiding residents. Part...

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:00:00 +1200

Aiming to get drunk biggest worry

When Californian midwife Susan Parker arrived in Christchurch in 2001, she found she had settled in "the most alcohol-driven country I have ever encountered". It's not that we drink more than anyone else, although we do drink about...

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:00:16 +1200

'I hit rock bottom. I didn't want to end up in jail'

Drinking was simply part of being a teenager when Paul Gosling was growing up in Whakatane. "If you didn't drink there was something wrong. Everyone else was doing it," he says. "It's a cool thing to do. It's like getting a...

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:00:00 +1200

Lionel Shriver: More fool you if you're duped by females acting out 'the little woman'

Whenever "women and children" are killed - the phrase has recurred in coverage of the Israeli bombardment of Gaza - we're meant to be especially horrified. That assumption has always irked me. Is there anything more acceptable about...

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:00:00 +1200

Liquor backlash - locals say no to stores

The liquor industry has been hit by a grassroots backlash around the country since Manurewa liquor store owner Navtej Singh was killed last year. Communities at Mairangi Bay, Oranga and Roskill South in Auckland and Cannons Creek...

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:00:20 +1200

Broken bottles society's hangover

Rachael Vakauta has had to stop her children playing in the park which is virtually outside their front door - because it is so often strewn with drinkers' broken bottles. Mrs Vakauta, 33, has lived close to Molley Green Reserve...

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:00:00 +1200

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