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Letters to the editor and short takes for Friday 22 November 2019

November 22 2019 - 1:00am
Letters | Live music will go silent in streets if we let it
Letters | Live music will go silent in streets if we let it

DENISE Pollock (Short Takes, 18/11) in all of the letters calling for a review of lockout laws in Newey or anywhere else for that matter, I cannot recall anyone wanting to return "to the bad old days of alcohol fuelled violence in the CBD." As a matter of fact, there are a raft of checks and balances that ensure that liquor outlets are much more held accountable than back in "the bad old days" when there were next to no rules. And again let me reiterate that in the '70s, '80s and '90s, I never had a drama anywhere I went, whether it be the Palais, Ambassador, Bel Air, Star Hotel, Jolly Roger, Casbah, Prince, Mary Ellen, Beaches Hotel, Cambridge, Fanny's, the Castle or any other establishment in Newcastle. You were able to enjoy yourself as long as you knew your limits and let me tell you that back then as well as now, 99 percent of people do the right thing and the small percentage that don't behave contribute to more and more lockouts.

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