The Daily Telegraph was reporting that the city’s controversial lockout laws would soon be scrapped across the CBD, with Premier Gladys Berejiklian announcing it was “time to enhance Sydney’s nightlife.”
Sydney's controversial bar lockout laws have "devastated" the city's economy and led to millions fewer visitors, new data from the city's council claims.
The Sydney “lockout laws” have created significant debate about whether crime is being reduced, if it is being pushed into surrounding areas, and what the impacts are on local residents.
AT 1.30am on the February 24 in 2014, the state government’s controversial lockout laws fell on Sydney’s night-life — and four years on, their consequences are still reverberating around the inner city.
The emergency room at Sydney’s St Vincent’s Hospital has seen a 10% reduction in the incidence of fractures that are often caused by a punch to the face over the two years since the so-called “lockout laws” were introduced.
Alcohol-related non-domestic incidents rose 42% in the Oxford Street precinct from September 2016 to September 2017, to 98 incidents. More than half of these took place on licenced premises. During this same period there were 103 incidents in Kings Cross.
