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A king hit to common sense

Blame permissive society, not simply booze, for the violence and bloodshed on our streets

11 January 2014

9:00 AM

11 January 2014

9:00 AM

Society has taken a wrong turn with our city streets filled with self-obsessed thugs bent on violence — and the answer is so startlingly simple. Let’s blame it all on alcohol, close the hotels early and the problem will disappear as quickly as a yard of beer down the gullet of Bob Hawke in his Oxford days.

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Ian Moore is a former editor of the Sunday Telegraph and founding editor of the Sunday Herald Sun.

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