Western Australia to Introduce Liquor Laws
Thursday May 14, 2009
Western Australia is interested in the compulsory welfare quarantining used in the Northern Territory to help reduce alcohol abuse.
However Western Australian government wants to apply the management program to communities in the state in a more specific way that the territory, where the program has been deployed across 73 Indigenous communities as part of the federal emergency intervention.
The welfare quarantining in Western Australia will apply to communities or problem drinkers who have come to the attention of authorities.
A trial that is already in place in Perth and the Kimberley gives Western Australia's Department of Child Protection power to recommend that Centrelink are able to quarantine family payments.
Racing, Gaming and Liquor Minister Terry Wauldon said that any WA system would come to include people who have been charged for drink-driving and other offences related to alcohol.
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