NOEL PEARSON: Well, I think that there’s not been a proper confrontation with the drivers of these problems. There’s been an unwillingness, for example, to make the connection between grog and the abuse. And, you know, these problems go back a long way. I come with a great deal of scepticism about many of the …
The abuse of grog and violence are epidemics their own right, not merely symptoms of underlying social and psychological problems. Data shows a lot of violent offending is linked to alcohol … We must continue to improve the effectiveness of our approaches, and the QPC should consider what can be done to reduce alcohol and …
Safety of aboriginal kids trumps so-called right to drink – says Cape York Institute Read More »
The story of the Anglican Aboriginal Churches in the Northern Territory cannot be told without including Gumbuli. He was the first Aboriginal person to be ordained as priest in the NT, and only the 2nd Anglican Aboriginal priest in Australia. He was respected by many at Ngukurr for standing against alcohol being brought into the …
Gumbuli Wurramara aboriginal elder of Arnhem Land standing against alcohol Read More »
Eph. 5:17 Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is. [See Prov. 20:1 “… whoever is led astray by it is not wise”.] Eph. 5:18 And do not be drunk with wine, in which is {asōtia} dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit (NKJV) Spirit The original Greek term …
Ephesians 5:18 unsaved drunk but saved inhale the Spirit Read More »
See also: Bible says be sober again and again. See also: Total Abstinence: Wesleyan Methodist Church of Australia (2016) ‘alcohol, tobacco, other harmful drugs … we deplore the industry …’ (WMC Australia) ‘…We believe that the sale and of tobacco, alcohol and other nonmedicinal drugs is a social evil which is draining and corrupting to …
Wesleyan Church beliefs on drinking alcohol (1843-2022) Read More »
Numbers 6:3 – The Nazarites are separated from: 1. The Origin of wine “yayin” and its subsequent decay… 2. “chometz yayin” 3. “chometz” “… wine and … fermentation of wine … one is not to drink, any liquid of grapes one is not to drink, and grapes, moist or dried, one is not to eat.”(Numbers …
[Herbert Yunkaporta, a local pastor at Aurukun, Queensland.] In 1985, the Queensland government forced the imposition of a wet canteen at Aurukun against the vehement objection of elders. Within a decade, homicides, non-existent at Aurukun during much of the mission era, had risen exponentially, and suicides were not far behind. He vividly remembers … the …
Aurukun pastor says beer trucks introduced darkest decade in the history of Aurukun Read More »
“The difference between that kind of wine, and … the kind of wine G–d will offer the righteous to drink in the world to come, is that the former is liable to intoxicate (those that drink it), whereas the latter causes pure joy (to those who imbibe it).” – Isaiah HaLevi Horovitz (a Polish rabbi …
Rabbi Horovitz: some wines intoxicate, some do not Read More »
“But the vine said to them, ‘Shall I leave my TIROSH [grapes] that cheers God and men and go hold sway over the trees?’” (Judges 9:13) See the meaning of tirosh, as one “…shall tread grapes (tirosh), but not drink wine (yayin).” (Mic. 6:15 ESV) Unfermented grape juice in Isa. 16:10 was indeed within the …
תִּירוֹשׁ Judges 9:13 grapes “tirosh” cheer God and men (Hebrew meaning) Read More »
“It is well-established that increases in the availability of alcohol contributes to increases in alcohol-related violence. Research in Melbourne has found that there is a strong association between family violence and the concentration of off licence (packaged or take-away liquor outlets in an area. The study concluded that a ten per cent increase in off-licence …