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Fining people for drinking alcohol at any time in city park lands would be “discriminatory and racist” towards Aboriginal and homeless people, the majority of respondents to an Adelaide City Council consultation claim – after most councillors backed the move.
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A 24/7 dry zone trial in Blue Gum Park and Veale Gardens in the city’s south will be extended for one month, as the Adelaide City Council pushes ahead with its call to ban alcohol at all times across the park lands.
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Adelaide City Council proposes extending the park lands dry zone for a further two years, despite warnings from drug and alcohol services that the controversial policy has failed to reduce anti-social behaviour in the city.
Adelaide City Council has failed to show compassion to the most vulnerable members of the community by endorsing another extension of the parklands dry zone, the CEO of AnglicareSA says.
The Adelaide City Council has endorsed another 12-month extension to the alcohol-free zone in the parklands, declaring that the problem of anti-social behaviour near city residents has been “solved”.
Fines and booze bans are failing to curtail problem drinking in indigenous communities, with case workers reporting almost $300,000 worth of unpaid penalties had been accrued by just 28 members of one district last year.
