FOMO Festival Director Lays Facebook Smackdown On Queensland Government Over...
Yesterday the Queensland Government reached a deal to pass the strictest lockout laws in the country, and the backlash from the music community has been swift. Musicians, venue owners and even the head...
View ArticleQueensland Lockout Laws Could Force BIGSOUND Interstate, Say Organisers
The head of QMusic, which is responsible for bringing us Australia’s biggest annual music industry conference BIGSOUND in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley, says organisers could be forced to move the event...
View ArticleCrowdfunding Campaign Launched To Save Brisbane All Ages Venue
Brisbane alternative music hub The Lab has launched a crowdfunding campaign to ensure that it can keep hosting all ages events. In an impassioned statement via its GoFundMe page, the venue has appealed...
View ArticleHealth Services Group Push For Nationwide Lockout Laws & No Alcohol Sponsors...
An Australian health care group has proposed the implementation of nationwide lockout laws in order to reduce alcohol-related harm by 20 per cent before 2025. St Vincent’s Health Australia (SVHA),...
View ArticleBrisbane Venues Unite For One Last ‘Fuck You Lockouts’ Party
As a light begins to appear at the end of the tunnel created by Sydney’s catastrophic lockout laws, Queensland is bracing to kick-off its own toxic love affair with the same restrictions that have...
View ArticleHundreds Protest Lockout Laws At ‘Keep Queensland Open’ Rally
Hundreds of people have taken to the streets of Brisbane today, to rally against the Queensland Labour Government’s new lockout laws and last drinks legislation, which will see the state hit with...
View ArticleA Millionaire Music Venue Owner Wants To “Bankroll” An Anti-Lockout Campaign...
Scott Hutchinson, the co-owner of Brisbane live music venue The Triffid has offered to “bankroll whatever is necessary” to kickstart an anti-lockout campaign. The Queensland Labor government’s lockout...
View ArticleQueensland Venues Report 20 Per Cent Drop In Business Under New Lockout Laws
Queensland venues are reporting a 20 per cent drop in business on the first weekend since the state implemented new lockout laws on Friday, with 3am last drinks now set for venues in entertainment...
View ArticleQueensland Almost Just Repealed Its Planned Lockout Laws
Queensland is set to introduce tougher lockout laws in February next year, but the proposed legislation change was almost repealed last night when the motion to stop the new legislation failed to pass...
View ArticleQueensland Government Scraps Proposed 1am Lockouts
The Queensland Government has confirmed that it will scrap its proposed plan for a 1:00am lockout in favour of ID scanners. As News Limited report, the Government was due to introduce the 1am lockout...
View ArticleThis Australian Capital City Just Got Longer Late-Night Drinking Hours
While other Australian capital cities are doing their best to crack down on the offensive practice of being out late at night (because as we all know, any decent, self-respecting citizen is in bed...
View ArticleLiberal MP Starts Petition To Protest Queensland’s Lockout Laws
Queensland Liberal MP Teresa Gambaro has started a Change.org petition to directly protest the Labor government’s proposed changes to lockout legislation. Gambaro has criticised the changes – that...
View ArticleQueensland Government To Debate Proposed Lockout Laws Next Week Despite...
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says the debate on Queensland’s proposed lockout laws won’t be postponed and will begin next week because the laws “are too important”. As Fairfax Media...
View ArticleQueensland To Get Tougher Lockout Laws As State Premier Reaches Deal
Bad news today for Queenslanders with news emerging that the state will be embracing even tougher lockout legislation. To be implemented with a staggered approach, the lockout laws will ‘kick off’ with...
View ArticleBrisbane Musos Fear “Kings Cross-Style Wipe-Out” Following Introduction Of...
A collective forehead-slap rang out across the nation yesterday, as the Queensland government reached a deal to pass the strictest lockout laws in Australia. One-upping Sydney’s current legislation –...
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