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PC Pubs push to fight domestic violence over a friendly beer – blaming the men again

Pubs push to fight violence over a friendly beer

Vikki Campion: Daily Telegraph | November 12, 2008

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,24638588-5001021,00.html

MALE drinkers in pubs will be warned over a beer not to beat their wife and children in a new offensive against domestic violence.

Bar staff also will be trained to help spread the warnings as data shows domestic violence increases on Sydney’s boozy summer nights.

The State Government-supported push will run in pubs and clubs across Sydney’s outer west, Port Macquarie, Griffith and Tumut.

Schooners will be served on more than 60,000 coasters saying “Shout at the pub, not at home”; …

Abo Alcohol Prohibition Campaigner is an Oxymoron

Aboriginal campaigner Bernard Singer’s tree fight fine

Andrew Dowdell, Court Reporter: The Advertiser | August 01, 2008

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24112298-2682,00.html

APY Lands chairman Bernard Singer has been convicted and fined over an assault at a Far North community earlier this year.

Singer, 41, today admitted to punching another man during an argument over the cutting down of a “sacred tree” on the lands in May.

The alcohol prohibition campaigner had denied the assault but pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and misuse of a motor vehicle midway through his trial in Coober Pedy Magistrates Court.
Abo Alcohol Prohibition Campaigner is an Oxymoron
The court previously heard that Singer had a …