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Who are you calling a wowser Kristina

02 Apr 06:00am

Filed under: Alcohol, Emergency Workers, Kristina Keneally, Law, Police

Police officers are called a lot of names, but when the NSW Premier Kristina Keneally this week called us ‘wowsers’ for launching a campaign to close pubs at 3am, we were left scratching our heads.

Does this look familiar to anyone? Charming scenes from a night out on the town

Maybe something got lost in the translation to ocker for our Premier, but according to my research

the term originally referred to annoying and disruptive people – the sort of people an alcohol lock-out would attempt to manage.

In more recent times, the term evolved to refer to the ‘pious’, a fair description of the hotel lobby who seems to run NSW, who (with a straight face) attempted to argue that thousands of jobs would be lost
if people were told to go home before the sun comes up.

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Mike Cockburn says:

03:57pm | 21/03/11

Hey 000 Wowser Medic, get on board with Pedestrian 08. Bars cannot sell alcohol responsibly without providing available, reliable, near blood test quality BAC testing machines. When will Slater and Gordon sue them… Governments are negligently ignoring their duty of care obligations by failing to declare and enforce a maximum,… Read more »
janeen fleming says:

09:54am | 27/10/10

Its not necsarily all the parents fault sometimes there is engrained bad genes in individual soemtimes stemming from their social circle. So inturn it is nto always the parents that make a thug, it has often to do wtih heir social environment. Read more »

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