3 ms·

The reason Alice Springs have banned alcohol is that people from dry communities visit Alice Springs for grog. The localised ban has needed to be somewhat widen

• burner420042 3y ago
  This is what drives me nuts about Hacker News. It's easy to debate banning alcohol in a remote city most have only heard of, it's quite another to have spent a week there as a foreigner, gone for walks, saw the renal clinics, the doormen keeping Aborigines out of the bars, and witnessed drunk Aboriginal men and women sitting in the park midday and how they acted. I'm not here to sensationalize this issue, but it is incredibly ugly what alcohol has done to these people's lives. The place is fucked up. The local white people seemed completely fed up with the situation. I appreciated at the time that it's hard to empathize with a group of people when you consistently see them at their worst and your stuff keeps going missing and yet there was also clear racism and more than a few white people made their living maintaining government funded facilities for the various Aboriginal communities. In the present a total ban of alcohol is probably warranted. Maybe you disagree, and I encourage everyone to travel and form their own opinion.