If alcohol was not destructive as it is, no one will be talking about banning it. So who is concerned about its ban, suicidal people or who?
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An Alice Springs businessman says banning alcohol at the Uluru viewing platform will sour the tourist experience, and the Commonwealth should be putting more money into rehabilitating alcoholics instead of punishing Central Australian tourism.
Brendan Heenan from MacDonnell Range Holiday Park is angry that people will soon be stopped from having a glass of wine while watching the sun set at Uluru.
From September 14, alcohol will be banned in the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park as part of the Commonwealth's intervention in Northern Territory Indigenous communities.
Mr Heenan says the move disadvantages hundreds of thousands of tourists.
"In Alice Springs there's no more than say 300 people that are the problem. That needs to be rectified" he said.
"We can do that by putting them in rehab and breaking that cycle. We don't need to upset our tourist trade just because of a few hundred people."