Young people & alcohol: some statistics on possible effects of lowering the drinking age [pdf, 279 KB]
...indicate improved age identification and greater compliance from licensed premises. It is also possible that this decline is due to a Police preference for issuing an infringement notice to young people rather than taking the more time consuming and resource-intensive action against licensed premises. The total number of minors found in restricted or supervised areas of licensed premises that were apprehended or issued with infringement notices in the year 2000 was more than the number of min...