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51jay
I spent 3 years in Darwin, leaving just after cyclone Max. I have never before seen so many people who thought it was normal social drinking to get through a carton or 2 every day. More on weekends of course.
I worked in the Psyche unit at Darwin Hospital. During the wet season we would get a few young blokes in with full on Delirium Tremens. They had been stranded in the bush for a week or more and run out of grog
Incidently I helped a mate sail his boat from Bris to Darwin early last year and didn't recognise any of it. Even the airport was in a diferent place
I don't know about now but back then I think a significent portion of the population were never ever sober.
Too true, I spent a few years in Darwin, in the Navy, we sat out" Max" on a patrol boat in the harbour, non event, really. They had a novel way of calculating travel time, Darwin to Tumbling Waters was a six stubbie trip, and so on. On weekends we filled up a 6x4 trailer with beer, and drove it from place to place, mobile party, just top up the trailer for entry.A non drinker was treated with suspicion, someone to watch closely, obviously a southern blowin. Just escaped with my liver when posted south , much to the delight of my long suffering wife. Bob 
I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food
A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking
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and the Babinda mill won't be operating next season. 
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