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| Subject: OZschwitz businesses plead for relaxation of lockout laws Fri May 31, 2019 9:48 pm | |
| The business community in Sydney’s Kings Cross is pleading for a relaxation of the controversial lockout laws and the scrapping of an ID scanning system which it says are destroying their livelihood and their area.
The spate of alcohol-fuelled violence that led to new laws and ID scanners first being introduced has now disappeared, they say, and with the closure and conversion of many of the nightclubs and bars into residential apartments, the streets are quieter.
“Kings Cross has been transformed into a much more residential area, with foot traffic down by 80 per cent, according to the City of Sydney,” said Carrington Brigham, executive chairman of the local chamber of commerce, the Potts Point Partnership. “So these kind of measures can’t be justified any longer.
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