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| Subject: Lock out laws shut down OZschwitz nightlife district Wed Aug 27, 2014 9:18 pm | |
| Poor old Oxford Street. If you want to kill a party stone dead, you stop the alcohol, right? People say they'll stay, but once they start sipping water, they remember tomorrow's early start and it's all over. Dead as. Same with a city's nightlife.
Six months into Barry O'Farrell's draconian small hours, inner-city lockout laws, the evidence is still mostly anecdotal. Some say the violence is down, some say it's up (because everyone pours out at once). Others say it has dispersed or gone underground. But even if it's option A, and the legislation has worked, the cost may be more than we should pay.
Answering violence with a lockout is like answering a forest ambush with clear-felling. A street like Oxford Street is far more than a conduit. It's an ecosystem; an intricate interlace of battle and support, a rhythmic diurnal dance of day dwellers, evening meanderers, nighthawks and, yes, predators; waking and sleeping, opening and closing as the Earth turns. O'Farrell's lockout sprayed this jungle with Agent Orange.
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