Quoted from BSquared

I'm gonna make that a bumper sticker Cactus.

That's okay; I though you were gonna have a go at my comment given my stance on regulation (prohibition) in advertising!

SA Police arrested 19 people during schoolies' week in Victor, 18 of whom were not school leavers...

I'm starting to get a clearer picture of Schoolies now. It does seem to be the Toolies that cause the problems.

Toolies (read Tools) permeate every facet of our lives. When the Schoolies aren't on the Gold Coast the Toolies are still their doing what they do best, being tools.
I think it stinks that the 'organisers' of 'Schoolies' in Surfer's have closed up shop and left. No Beach Disco's for NSW and Victorian schoolies. No organised fun. No BMX displays. NOTHING for anyone under 18. They claim that most schoolies from the southern states are 18 or over and therefore can go to licenced premises. There are a lot of student/schoolies who are under 18. What do they get to do? This was not made known until today when the organisers began to pack up. There wont even be assistance for those young adults who need it for example: if they are drunk, attacked, sexually molested or suffering the effects of drugs. There will be regular police and ambulance services but that's it. I think it stinks and I believe the Gold Coast City Council have made a huge blunder and tourism will be the loser (after the new influx of Schoolies who are the real losers right now).

This guy has been banned from Schoolies!

Schoolies 'brawler' banned
Joel Dullroy
29nov05

AN alleged serial Schoolies brawler has been banned from returning to Surfers Paradise after being arrested for the third night in a row.

Southport magistrate Catherine Pirie yesterday ordered 17-year-old Adam James Pluta to stay away from Schoolies celebrations for the rest of the event.

Pluta was charged with causing a public nuisance after allegedly attempting to start a fight with a fellow Schoolies reveller who was dancing with his estranged girlfriend.

It was Pluta's second Schoolies-related court appearance in three days. On Saturday he pleaded guilty to charges of common assault and assault occasioning bodily harm and was fined $2050.

That same evening television crews filmed Pluta being arrested on the beach for further alleged offences.

Police prosecutor Sergeant Jim Pedlow said Pluta was a repeat offender who should not be allowed back into Surfers Paradise.

"He was arrested every night for three nights, and was previously warned by police," Sgt Pedlow said.

"He was seen with his fists raised . . . he constantly stated that he wanted to smash the other person."

Ms Pirie released Pluta on bail until December 9 on the condition that he "not attend Surfers Paradise".

However, Pluta loudly objected to the condition and insisted he had a right to continue partying.

"It's my Schoolies year. I was trying to have a good time," said Pluta, an apprentice renderer from Southport.

School leavers from southern states will continue to celebrate their Schoolies Week until Friday night.

The official 10-day beachfront entertainment program ended on Sunday night, and schoolies are now expected to retreat to nightclubs to find entertainment.

Police have been kept far busier in the second week of Schoolies, with a higher number of arrests of both school leavers and gatecrashers at the weekend.

Article in todays Courier Mail (Brisbane paper) about how kids are going to Thailand instead, no enforcement of drinking laws and much cheaper.

Actually I am suprised this has not occured earlier.

It is obvious that not ALL schoolies from all over Oz go to the Gold Coast, it just seems that way at the time! I have heard of school leavers going offshore, on cruises, and visiting Qld Islands. Here on the Sunny Coast many quieter more studious and serious school leavers have been seen having an enjoyable but inconspicuous time.  

Ban whom, from what, when and how? If your intention is to ban young people and others from migrating to Queensland ask yourself those questions

Maybe we should keep Queensland for the boring!

My 28 year old daughter went down to 'watch over' her 17yo sister and her sister's boyfriend. She spent only 3 days with them last week as it got washed out. While she was there she found the management and staff of the accommodations rude, disrespectful and taking advantage of green kids who have yet to learn about life. The kids paid exorbitant prices for accommodation and were treated like less than human beings. In one unit block the management and staff would burst into the rooms unannounced and rifle through all the schoolies belongings, then leave. All hours of the day and night. My daughter went to enter a place as a 'guest' of a paying guest to use the pool which under normal circumstances IS allowed but not that week, she was told to leave. When questioning the staff as to why she was treated badly. She is a strong girl my daughter and insisted they answer her question that if it was any other week but Schoolies would she be allowed to enter as a guest of a guest. They eventually answered her...'Yes'. When she was scheduled to leave there was a time she had to be out by. She was running a few minutes late, rang the reception to tell them and a woman ripped through her and said she had to be out NOW. My daughter tried to get a word in and tell the woman why she was running late and that she would be another 10 minutes Max. In the end she was persistent enough for the woman to actually listen and said 'I WILL be out in 10 minutes, I just have to pack up my things and I will leave.' I would not return to a place that treated me with such disrespect. These kids should warn everyone about what a rip off it is and how badly they were treated.

Well you dont think they put up with the underage drinking and partying out of the goodness of there hearts - they are taking as much advantage as the older kids and others whom also go to schoolies - its like the annual sardine run, all the sharks show up.

I think schoolies sounds bad, I don't want to go, to the coast. Not to say I wouldn't go elsewhere.. but not the sunshine/gold coast.
BTW most Qld people are 17 when they finish school, but nsw people are 18 :S

lol awful
that would just make people rebel

and it's no better this year.  I do think that the QLD. govt. is partially at fault, or at least complete morons,  if what this report says is true...

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It also came as the Queensland Government faced criticism for allowing the open sale of drug paraphernalia at chemists offering "schoolies week specials" on bongs and the $20 glass pipes used to take the drug ice.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20820068-2,00.html

Quoted from BSquared

NO

We need to stop spending money to "ban" things that you can't possibly ban.  You can't stop teenagers being teenagers just like you can't stop people smoking or drinking or taking drugs or all the other things that we try to ban.  All we do is spend obscene amounts of our money (it's not the government's money you know - we earned it and they took it without asking) trying in vain to police the bans.  None of these "bans" are ever going to be successful.

... that is SO true...

I didn't go to schoolies. I don't like the drugs and the assaults that happen every year, so I instead had a party with my mates. Apart from alcohol, there was nothing dangerous there. However, I don't think Schoolies should be banned. It's the toolies that are ruining it for everyone.