Pubs keep communities connected...

While predominately a Federal issue...Our pubs represent a "friendly" part of our country communities, and many believe that they foster social relationships among residents, strengthening the level of cohesion in small regional towns and as a result positively contribute to communal well-being.

Overall, pubs have a positive, significant impact on social engagement and involvement among residents living in regional Australia...most pubs have become increasingly important as other essential services such as post offices and local supermarkets.

It is not just a pub, it's a community hub...

Regional small towns with a pub have more community events - such as sports matches, charity events, and social clubs - than those without. Simply speaking, opportunities for communal initiatives would be vastly reduced, if not non-existent, in these small regional towns without the presence of pubs.

This would in turn place further undue pressure on our already steadily broken regional towns and their sense of community spirit by presenting yet further tax burdens on country "Oz" families.

This situation of further "Beer" taxation, after all that has been already endured by Pubs/communities in regional Australia this last three years is tantamount to a direct attack on our way of life and yet another blow toward our ability to cope...and this has to stop.

Put simply, we in regional communities can't take much more mentally, our pubs give us relief, a sense of everyone knowing our name as we walk through the pub door, a sense that we belong to our regional communities...the pub is our watering hole, our meeting place, so "hands off" to all those in government (at any level) that think we the country town folk...the publicans, are simply there to be the governments personal ATM when it suits.