Lockout Inquiry Submission Deadline Is Up, What Happens Now?

The Sydney lockout laws, by most accounts, seem to be a big ol’ pile of dicks whose efficacy has only been demonstrated by some wonky stats, and have been wildly unpopular with both venue operators and the drink-inclined punters. 
Protests against the lockout laws managed to draw 15,000 people, which is pretty impressive if you consider how much of an inconvenience it is to leave your house and do stuff. 
When the laws were introduced in early 2014, they were done so on the condition that an inquiry was done after 2 years to see whether they were working or not. Which, because that was 2 years ago, began in early March and asked for members of the community to submit feedback on whether the laws were radical or shithouse – which, as a concerned citizen, you were obviously well aware of and had already sent in your heartfelt love letter to getting ripshit drunk and bar hopping at 3am. 
The Government received 1,856 submissions in total, most of which, it’s safe to assume, are probably just “rack off, Mike Baird“.
The inquiry is being headed up by former High Court Justice Ian Callinan, who previously worked on the Fitzgerald Inquiry, which exposed massive corruption in the Queensland police force, showing that at least he wouldn’t be super scared of telling the government they were wrong. 
Additionally, according to The Australian he has “an expansive wine cellar and is the author of several racy novels”, which seems kinda weird but I guess can’t hurt.
So what happens now that submissions are closed? Callinan and his team have until August to compile a report combining the community feedback and the numbers they crunched, which they will submit to the Government who can then in turn do whatever the hell they want with it. 
This doesn’t particularly bode well as old mate Baird has already stated that he is very, very reluctant to repeal the lockout laws regardless of the findings and the Government has a wonderful history of trying to launch inquiries into inquiries they didn’t agree with, like just recently with the whole Safe Schools business. 
Which means going forward the only course of action is continuing to make sure you’re letting your local member know that you really, really want to be able to get wine from the bottle-o at like 11:58pm.

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