Aboriginals

Kava drinking: serving a holy God yet practising a dirty habit

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Kava: the drug ruining the Pacific The drug has been introduced to Australia – as if Australia did not already have enough problems from alcohol and other drugs. (Piper methysticum is known as kava or yaqona.) Kava: psychotic effect clouds judgement People ignore kava’s horrid taste, and unfortunately drink it for the sake of its …

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Complete alcohol ban: violence out, schools up

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The head of WA’s [Western Australia’s] Aboriginal Health Council is calling for alcohol to be made illegal in indigenous communities across the State as the Government considers implementing liquor bans in at least three more townships. Henry Councillor said the early success of a complete alcohol ban imposed on the remote east Kimberley outpost of …

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