http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-02/alcohol-related-injuries-down-since-kings-...

Sydney's lockout laws have led to a significant decrease in the most life-threatening alcohol-related injuries, doctors from St Vincent's Hospital in Darlinghurst say.

In the 12 months since the laws were introduced, there was a 25 per cent decrease in the most critically injured patients, according to data gathered by the hospital.

Emergency professionals said there was also little evidence to suggest that the CBD lockout laws, which focus on Kings Cross, were pushing alcohol-related violence or injuries to other parts of the city.

The lockout laws were introduced by the NSW Government in February last year after a series of deaths in the inner-city nightclub precinct.

The laws imposed 1:30am lockouts for many hotels, nightclubs and bars, a ban on shots after midnight and a 3:00am last drinks policy.

Professor Gordian Fulde is the director of the emergency department at St Vincent's Hospital, which borders the area affected by the lockouts.

He has compared data from the 12 months before the laws were brought in, with the 12 months since.

"It showed that there was decrease all through the week but the most significant decrease was over the weekend," Professor Fulde said.

"High alcohol time was Friday night to Sunday morning and it showed a 25 per cent decrease in seriously injured patients coming in over the weekend."

Lockout laws do not appear to be pushing the problem to other suburbs, with hospital and police statistics showing no increase in severe injuries in the year since the laws were brought in.

"There were more drinkers in Newtown but in the first year we are anecdotally told there was no increase to Royal Prince Alfred," Professor Fulde said.

"So in the first year there wasn't any shift or people going out and bashing each other up somewhere else."

Sydney’s Lockout Laws Have Pushed Violence Into Neighbouring Suburbs And Here’s The Proof

New ‘hotspot maps’ released by the Bureau Of Crime Stats show that, although violent assaults dropped by 26% in Sydney’s CBD and 32% in Kings Cross since the introduction of 1.30am lockouts and 3am last drinks, the figures for the same types of crimes have risen in sections of Surry Hills and Redfern.

And even more interestingly, the area around The Star Casino in Pyrmont (which is exempt from lockouts) has become the city’s worst hotspot for violence since the laws were introduced.

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Its good to see the violence has stopped, too many people were ending up with brain damage and the world does not need any more idiot lefties in it.

I'm a little surprised by the results, but if they actually work, then it's probably worth considering.

However, like all laws that are set to achieve a specific outcome, there should be a sunset clause added for further review.

I doubt this has anything to do with party - it's a long-overdue measure and was coming anyway.  The club where I work has installed its own without government pressure - we have a retired local cop doing the floor walking and nobody messes with a retired cop - too many friends still in the Force.

Alcohol shut off 3/4 of an hour before closing, and no multiple drinks buys.

The right wingers on this forum are hilarious, constantly crying about left wing "Authoritarianism" but then totalitarian policy like this is A-OK.

Australia does have a violence and alcohol problem, curfews on adults aren't the way to sort them out. All this is doing is killing the local nightlife economy and driving violence elsewhere.

People are surprised this works? What prohibition stops people from drinking at certain hours and certain places and causes alcohol related issues to drop in those areas? What else would happen?

Doesn't stop this from being a massive nanny-state authoritarian policy that has effectively killed Sydney nightlife (to obviously redevelop Cross into a poncy yuppie boomer gentrified lifeless shithole)

A real discussion on drug reform is needed. If MDMA was the major substance, none of this would ever be an issue.

Kat wrote on Nov 2^nd, 2015 at 12:59pm:


Has there been such an increase?

Maqqa wrote on Nov 2^nd, 2015 at 9:56am:


Yes.

The alcopops tax was meant to stop teenagers binge drinking, it did nothing apart from raising a few billion in taxes.
The cigarette tax was supposed to stop people smoking, it hasn't achieved that yet has raised billions in taxes.
If the government can sell it as being for your own god the sheeple say nothing about the massive new taxes.

The lockout laws are a joke, they came about because someone was assaulted in the street it had nothing to do with nightclubs.
Why should nightclubs be punished because of dickheads bashing people in the streets?