Yeah i do- i lived with one. His family tried everything accept the forceable removal of alcohol. At least its a start.
Are you addicted to calling people racists? Because nobody has said anything or done anything remotely racist.
Simone.
Except for the entire thrust of the legislative effort to remove alcohol and pron from these communities. There is NO similar effort in non-indigenous communities. Therefore, this policy can quite clearly be labeled a racially discriminatory policy, aka racist.
The motivation behind the effort is to be commended, EXCEPT for the fact that the problem has been known for such a long time now, that to see anything in it except for politically motivated point scoring is naive and willfully blind.
Does noone realise that the forced removal of alcohol WILL NOT WORK??? prohibition has not worked anywhere in the world to date, SO WHY WOULD IT WORK NOW???
Kava has been used in NT communities as a replacement to the alcohol, and while you cannot stop people choosing to be drug addicted, the violence rates in these communities have dropped so dramatically, that although the rates of substance addictions till remain high, the levels of addiction related violence have dropped to nearly non-existant levels.
Alcohol is a drug which, to the extent of our knowledge, is one of the ONLY drugs which for an addict to go cold turkey from IS 100% lethal. The brain cannot handle it, it is not a psychological issue, but a physiological issue, A drunk going cold turkey will DIE.
Howard's a clever political operator, but this policy is so transparent, that not only will it have about -45% chance of actually succeeding, (approximate only, rate the fact that howard obviously care's about nothing but being seen to do something, irrespective of its chance of success, and the fact that prohibition has had a 0% effective rate across the globe with every single substance which has ever been prohibited) chance of actually succeeding,