The Wire

On Tuesday, a carton of wine was delivered to police in the Kowanyama community on the gulf on Carpentaria. The twenty-eight bottles of wine were earmarked for local police State Of Origin festivities. And there’s nothing wrong with a few drinks after a hard day’s work, right? Well in Queensland, it depends where you live. Sarah Collerton spoke with a Kowanyama local, a Kowanyama Councillor and the Lockhart River Council – which was at the focus of a grog scandal three years ago.