{"id":36520,"date":"2013-06-19T17:31:58","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T07:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=36520"},"modified":"2020-12-18T11:04:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T01:04:32","slug":"high-court-dismisses-alcohol-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2013\/06\/19\/high-court-dismisses-alcohol-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"High Court Dismisses Alcohol Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"

June 19, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today’s High Court decision to dismiss an appeal by a woman against her conviction for breaching alcohol management plan (AMP) restrictions on Palm Island has been welcomed by the State Government.<\/p>\n

Joan Maloney had been convicted of possessing a bottle of rum and a bottle of bourbon in a public place, in breach of the island’s AMP. She argued the restrictions breached the Racial Discrimination Act.<\/p>\n

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs Minister Glen Elmes said AMPs had been introduced in indigenous communities to reduce violence against women and children, and to increase social cohesion.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was confirmed in the decision of the High Court which was unanimously of the view that the alcohol management provisions constituted a ‘special measure’ designed to protect the residents of Palm Island from the effects of prevalent alcohol abuse and associated violence,” Mr Elmes said.<\/p>\n

Mr Elmes said the State Government believed it had a strong case, which the Queensland Court of Appeal had upheld twice before.<\/p>\n

However, he said the government would continue the process of working with communities to review AMPs in the indigenous communities where they are in place.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are determined to assist those communities which could demonstrate they had strategies in place for reducing alcohol-related abuse and violence to return to an environment of greater normality,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur aim is for our discrete indigenous communities to be as normal as possible, which includes improving economic sustainability and reducing current high levels of violence and public disturbance.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Cherbourg Council CEO Warren Collins\u00a0… surveying the local community<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cherbourg Council is currently reviewing its Alcohol Management Plan and consulting with community members – and the adjoining South Burnett Regional Council – about whether it should continue.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mayor Ken Bone is on the public record as stating his opposition to the AMP continuing, saying he believed it is racist.<\/p>\n

Other community members spoken to by southburnett.com.au<\/strong> appear to be more supportive of the bans, fearing violence could escalate if unlimited amounts of alcohol were allowed back into the community.<\/p>\n

Speaking in April, Cherbourg Council CEO Warren Collins said Council had developed a survey to judge community feeling about the issue.<\/p>\n

All Council’s workforce had already been surveyed and the next step was to take it out into the rest of the community.<\/p>\n

“We will go door-to-door and sit down and survey everyone over the age of 18 at the residence at that time,” he said.<\/p>\n

Council was aiming to have all the answers collated by the end of this month so that they could formulate a proposal to the State Government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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