April 9, 2020

Western Australians dislike two things: being told to go to bed early, and being told they can’t have a drink. In our 120 years as a state, we’ve had four referendums that tried to impose restrictions on the sale of alcohol, and all of them were resoundingly rejected. Many people might be surprised to hear that there were two serious referendum attempts to ban liquor outright in WA, in 1925 and again in 1950. Both