Old Dog New Tricks wrote:morell wrote:For example, it is in South Australia's liquor licensing act that you are unable to sell alcohol on Good Friday. Shops are unable to open
Are you sure about that or are you just grabbing pieces of the LL Act or shoppies for that matter to suit your self fulfilling argument
http://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/LZ/C/A/LIQUOR%20LICENSING%20ACT%201997/2004.03.24/1997.65.PDFThere are Good Friday restrictions on ALL of the different types of licenses:
Hotel licence
32. (1) A hotel licence authorises the licensee
(a) to sell liquor on the licensed premises for consumption on or off the licensed premises
on any day (
except Sunday, Good Friday and Christmas Day) between 5 am and
midnight; and
Residential licence
33. (1) A residential licence
(b) if the conditions of the licence so provide—authorises the licensee to sell liquor on any
day except Good Friday and Christmas Day for consumption on the licensed premises
Restaurant licence
34. (1) A restaurant licence—
(c) if the conditions of the licence so provide—authorises the licensee to sell liquor on any
day
except Good Friday and Christmas Day for consumption on the licensed premises by
persons
Club licence
36. (1) A club licence authorises the licensee—
(a) to sell liquor on the licensed premises for consumption on the licensed premises on any
day (
except Sunday, Good Friday and Christmas Day)
Retail liquor merchant’s licence
37. (1) A retail liquor merchant’s licence authorises the licensee—
(a) to sell liquor on the licensed premises on any day
except Good Friday and Christmas
Day
etc ...
In a modern western democracy, where the constitution is explicit in it's secular intention and separation of church and state is one of the core tenements, this is galling and reeks of some crusty old god botherers sneaking in their sky daddy where he/she/it isn't welcome.
But I'm not that fussed really, I'm not going to go marching in the streets about it, but it shits me that Good Friday is treated with this sort of over the top revered status, and ANZAC Day is not - including the notion of playing football on said days. I would prefer to play footy on Good Friday, and leave ANZAC Day the **** alone, as an idea.