I'm appalled!!! According to the news the Qld Anna Bligh government pays for the schoolies on the Gold Coast to get drunk and make an absolute disgrace of themselves. There have been numerous brawls and arrests over the week. These are teenagers who have finished secondary school, probably not even 18 yet, and the govt subsides the week-long orgy. It's believed the parents even bring the alcohol. They also have schoolies in WA, on Rottnest Island. The young people are definitely not on their best behaviour, and seem to be drunk all the time. Do the other states have this tradition these days? I don't recall this sort of thing being the norm in my school days, or even my kids school days. Because the Gold Coast week was dogged with so much trouble, there are calls to bring this "tradition" to the end. I hope so. It's disgusting to see young people behaving like wild pigs. I wonder who their role models are?

BAN SCHOOLIES WEEK..................YEAH...............!!!!!!!

ITS not over yet we still have the Victorians and NSW schoolies this week, they export their kids to Queensland . Big business make big money out of schoolies and the state government has a duty of care to try to make these events has safe has they can. If we want to blame anybody look at the parents of these darling .

Schoolies in WA this week have been of outstanding behaviour. The most serious offence reported was when one young bloke stole a policeman's hat. The biggest complaint has come from the tour operators at Rotto who are complaining that the bars and restaurants are empty - but the manager of the Subway on the island is grinning from ear to ear. It's a little sad that the media publish photos or film of a few who have gone over the top, but the vast majority of the kids are very well behaved. The same can't be said about the "toolies" and "droolies" who flock like flies to a carcase. I won't comment on the Gold Coast scene, but in WA schoolies are welcomed in their usual hangouts such as Rottnest and Dunsborough.

We had schoolies week here.......but they leant.....total alchole free zone...and drug sniffer dogs patroling everywhere here at Victor Harbor Dave

"Spare the rod and spoil the child."I have seen the results of Schoolies on the Sunshine Coast.The cops have their hands full and the poor old Ambos are often used as punching bags.Often may seem like an exaggeration but once is to often in my book.I guess we don't live in a perfect world.I would have hated to see television pictures of one of my kids lying on a footpath after being bashed or drunk out of their minds covered in vomit.I realise that not all the kids are badly behaved,but going by the number of arrests things are not all roses.These are my thoughts and I in no way have intended to offend any parent who may have had a child invoved in the Schoolies Invasion.Cheers.Ibbo.

Ibbo.....you didnt offend me...you just got in before I did...I must be getting old.....I cant see the joy in any of it.........or the senceless defacing of private property....graffete....wheres the respect we all grew up with in young ones nowdays....I guess it went when .Gov....removed the right of parents to discipline them.... Dave

yep mine too, havent stopped working since, bloody workaholics like their Dad, pity really!

On the Gold Coast there were 23 arrests on the last day. That seems to have been the average over the week. It sounds like WA have got the concept under control, making it a happy celebration for everyone. I remember a few years ago the little darl's on Rotto played "Quokka Soccer". That's when the rules changed. Good for them. I don't the Qld subsidises the police to manage this week, I believe the kids get it. Maybe Qld parents have a lot to learn from WA. It was a disaster last year and it seems to have been worse this year. I think much of the community could do without the schoolies farce. I don't know where the parents stand on this, and it would be interesting to hear from them. I don't think the damage and disturbance is worth it.

parents are glad to get them out of the house and off their games machines! correct me if I'm wrong but providing alcohol to a minor is an offence, drinking whilst under age is an offence, yes?????? so how come these drunken little dopes are not all arrested and sumarily charged under the liquor legislation laws I was under the impression that all of the victor harbour foreshore is a dry zone (which is most of the cbd of victor) so how come these little twerps can make such a mess, we came home that way on sunday, just as the last of the drunken trollops were peeled off the lawns and reclothed, it was knee deep in red frogs for miles (gives one a bigger high when mixed with drugs or alcohol) how do they get away with it but I cant open a quiet beer on a park bench and admire encounter bay during a sunset it's all wrong in so many ways!

It most certainly is an offence for minors to drink alcohol, and it's an offence to supply alcohol to a minor. And then there are the drugs. These kids drink thos caffiene "energy" drinks, add alcohol, and now red frogs. What next! That's why there's such a huge Police and security presence. I'm sure the Police and security don't enjoy overseeing the week-long event. I'm also sure they don't enjoy being verbally abused and spat on, or kicked while trying to apprehend one offender who's too drunk to stand up. The entire concept of schoolies is just so anti-social. The parents have to take some responsibility for the actions of their kids, even if they don't provide the alcohol. As a parent I'd be terrified to allow or send my teenage daughters to schoolies. Not just because of their anticipated behaviour in a large group, but dreading the behaviour of others which could adversely impact on them. The whole schoolies scenario is just too dreadful and anti-social. Surely there wouldn't be too many happy memories of this time. They're not all drunk and misbehaving, but this sort of behaviour reflects on all of them.