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Binge Drinking and Violence in Brisbane

Night time,Fortitude Valley.,Brisbane Australia.Somewhere between 11 pm-1 am.

Bars are full or at least fairly crowded,specially on weekends. Young people ages 16-21 gathered there,drinking & having fun. Then another group of young people may walk in simply to unwind or celebrate something.

Next scene will be either one or more of the group mentioned earlier will be highly intoxicated that out of nowhere they will attack one,a few or all of the people from the other group & someone will be badly injured,be paralysed for life or worse,end up dead.Situations causing such attacks may vary from taunting the other party,one person/group being annoyed at whatever the other is or are doing to old unsettled arguements between enemies who happened to see each other in the same place.

Some,& i think so far this is the most common occurence at the moment,is just as senseless as somebody or a group of people who’s simply drunk & was trying to pick up a fight out of nowhere.

Yeah,in one intoxicated moment within the Valley or even at Brisbane CBD,lives will be altered forever.One punch is all it will take for a poor,unlucky fellow who will find himself at the wrong place & at the wrong time in the City.

Binge drinking is fast becoming a problem among young Australian everywhere & the Australian government is trying their very best to do something about it.Even the Australian police force is working to patrol every city efficiently to assure the people of their safety as they go around  the city at night & prevent assault & other crimes to both merry-makers & innocent bypassers.

But unless something drastic can be done about this situation,more & more young people will venture the streets & drink themselves to their delight,thus exposing them to a life of danger & trouble,,,,,if they’re lucky enough not to get into trouble themselves & get killed on a night of drunken bliss.

Marivic Irvine:

- Married,mother of 3






- 37 years of age






- Bachelor of Secondary Education undergraduate at Philippine Christian University,Philippines






- Filipino by nationality






- Been living in Queensland,Australia since October 2006

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