Melbourne suburb mocks Sydney lockout laws in ‘guerilla-style’ campaign
NSW State Premier Mike Baird is the butt of the joke in a new poster campaign by a Melbourne precinct aiming to capitalise on issues caused by the lockout laws.
The poster features a cartoon image of Baird dressed in his underwear and a nightcap and holding a candle with the simple slogan ‘Play til it’s my bed time, not Mike Baird time’, and has been popping up on boards across Sydney’s CBD.
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Baird has come under fire from businesses and partygoers alike for enacting stringent laws limiting when people can get into pubs and clubs, following a spate of violence in the city’s Kings Cross precinct.
http://www.bairdtime.com should sue.
Enough of the cliche “once vibrant”. Not only is it painfully overused, it’s also inaccurate. Kings Cross and Oxford Street over the last 10 years were not vibrant – they were feral, thanks to all the drunk idiots who had unlimited access to alcohol. I hear Chapel Street is heading the same way.
Whose paying for these posters? The clubs and pubs lobby that has brought us gambling, smoking, and excess drinking? Its hard to think that they have done any good at all – net. The country ran perfectly well before poker machines moved out of NSW nationally, and before closing times and the violence associated with it, were extended. The taxpaper pays the social costs – not the publicans.
Hopefully all the illegally put up posters are removed by these vandals.