Xmas At The Grog News

 
Warning - grog and ocean don't mix
Sky News Australia
Warning - grog and ocean don't mix Updated: 10:07, Thursday January 26, 2012 A shocking start to 2012 has NSW lifeguards worried about their busiest day of the year, when thousands take to the beach to celebrate Australia Day.

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Cop wins appeal over grog stockpile
The Australian
Senior Sergeant Bryan Kennedy knew Doomadgee's alcohol management plan prohibited carrying more than 27 litres of liquor, so he ferried the beer in smaller batches and stockpiled it at the police social club before a community Christmas party in 2007.


 
SuperShorts: Clarence Tillman joins the Breast-Is-Best Brigade
New Zealand Herald
Christmas dinner around at the Sanchez-Vicario household must be an icy affair. Former women's tennis world No1 Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario, is claiming her parents fleeced her, revealing in her autobiography, Arantxa, Vamos! Memoirs of a Struggle, ...

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Grog ban group celebrates sober start to new year
ABC Online
The group had promised to uphold a strict double-time barring policy for anyone acting inappropriately between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day. But Ms Sullivan says the town was well behaved and, to everyone's surprise, not one person was reported.


 
Sydney Morning Herald
Australians all let us rejoice ... and spend a buck or two
Sydney Morning Herald
For some businesses - notably pubs, butchers, grog shops and party suppliers - it's one of the busiest days of the year, as those celebrating January 26 get into the patriotic purchasing spirit. Online sales at The Party People are up 50 per cent from ...

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Slovenly Slobs Seek Succor In Slumpabout Settlements – January 31, 2012
Arcata Eye
Since they predictably pollute this paradisical promontory place with trash and spent beverage husks, the business has to shoo away up to a half dozen of the grog-sodden slumpabouts every morning. • Wednesday, January 4 7:21 am A wrong-way driver was ...