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Licensing laws

March 2019

  • Unlock Sydney sign at protest

    NSW Liberals question last-minute pub protest against lockout laws

    Government says ‘Unhappy Hour’ campaign may have breached the state’s electoral donation laws

February 2019

  • Brigid Delaney

    Overbearing laws don’t just throttle nightlife, they corporatise fun

    Brigid Delaney
  • Police detain a man following a fight outside Manchester’s Birdcage nightclub.

    How Britain's post-industrial cities got hooked on booze

February 2017

  • businessmen having drinks at a bar

    Bar's ban on men chatting up women: is it feminism gone too far, or Don Draper redux?

    The Maple Bar in Canberra wants to bring ‘a bit of class’ to the capital, raising questions over what sort of measures are needed to protect women

January 2017

  • Brisbane CBD at night

    Queensland drops lockout laws in favour of mandatory ID scans

    Annastacia Palaszczuk says the reduced trading hours already in place will ‘reduce the level of violence across our state’

December 2016

  • Nick Cave, Tkay Maidza, Dami Im and the Keep Sydney Open campaign manager, Tyson Koh

    2016 in review
    From Hottest 100 to Dami Im: Australian music’s 10 biggest talking points of 2016

    There was no shortage of controversy – be it over national identity or Eurovision – but there were also plenty of plaudits for performers new and old

November 2016

  • Gamblers playing poker machines, known as pokies.

    Norfolk Island body issuing Australian gambling licences to be shut down

  • Star casino in Sydney

    Two-thirds of assaults at Sydney's Star casino not reported to police

October 2016

  • The second Keep Sydney Open rally protesting against the city’s lockout laws policy attracted an estimated 10,000 people, according to organisers.

    Thousands rally against lockout laws in Sydney

    An estimated 10,000 people have marched against the city’s lockout laws, joined by artists Jimmy Barnes, Urthboy, Hayley Mary and One Day

September 2016

  • Kings Cross, Sydney

    Alcohol: lockout laws substantially reduce violence, review finds

    Finding comes amid calls for New South Wales government to ease 1.30am lockout laws and 3am last drinks rules in Sydney’s CBD and Kings Cross
  • Flume

    Flume releases new track and video in support of Keep Sydney Open campaign

    Video for the track Heater shows plaques being installed at venues that have closed since Mike Baird introduced lockout laws

    • Art & About in Sydney: a city snapshot from brothels to bulldozers and beaches

    • No, you can't have a scotch on the rocks: Richard Ackland battles Sydney's lockout laws – video

    • Sydney's lockout laws could be relaxed to 2am, independent review finds

August 2016

  • Demonstrators take part in protest rally against the NSW government’s lockout laws and impact on nightlife in Sydney, Sunday, Feb. 21, 2016. The laws, which say hurt businesses and the local industry, require central Sydney venues to turn people away from 1.30am, serve last drinks by 3am and ban the sale of takeaway alcohol after 10pm.(AAP Image/Paul Miller) NO ARCHIVING

    'Nightlife is still alive and well': do critics have it wrong on Sydney's lockout laws?

  • Mike Baird

    Mike Baird becomes butt of social media jokes after fracturing his spine

July 2016

  • empty bottles of alcohol

    Fortitude Valley counts cost of Queensland lockout laws

  • Irish Murphy’s pub on Elizabeth Street in downtown Brisbane.

    Queensland lockout laws: millionaire offers to bankroll campaign to end them

May 2016

  • NSW Premier Mike Baird talks to the media in Manly

    Mike Baird's cool-dad persona loses its sheen when he treats the public like children

    Alex McKinnon
  • Protesters at rally against Mike Baird

    'Baird out': protesters in Sydney rally against NSW premier's policies

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