Even the hard-drinking Australians are taking themselves too seriously and thereby taking alcohol too seriously:
Alcohol, George Bernard Shaw wrote, enables parliament to do things at 11 at night that no sane person would do at 11 in the morning. But sobriety, it seems, is back in vogue in Sydney, where two councillors are planning heresy by introducing prohibition to council meetings.
Unlike most Sydney councils, Woollahra serves dinner and drinks before its meeting rather than afterwards, leading to claims of alcohol-fuelled tomfoolery in the chamber. If the deputy mayor, David Shoebridge, and his fellow Green, Tanya Excell, have their way, tonight's pre-meeting tipple will be the last. They say going dry would "ensure that all councillors and staff are able to give clear and sober consideration to all matters before them".
Link. (Thanks Joe Tremblay at Chesterton and Friends.)
