''The police are everywhere and you can't drink on certain parts of the beach.'' ''Queensland has too many rules,'' says Erin Barnett, 17, of Bacchus Marsh, Victoria. ''There's too many of them - it's four to one,'' Smith remarks bitterly, ''and they're all on steroids.''īali's newfound popularity with schoolies is based on two things - it's cheap and it's virtually unregulated. Genuine schoolies Luke Hughes, Drew Smith, Jakob Walsh, all 18, and Mark Keats, 17, formerly of Westport High School in Port Macquarie, are unimpressed. That's what the girls are after.''Įvidence on the street suggests he does not exaggerate. ''We come, tattoos and that, and looking a bit older. ''Not to be rude, but 17-year-old boys…'' Goodhew says, shaking his head. They've had a few more years than the male school leavers to sculpt their pectorals and submit to the tattooist's needle, and they fancy their chances in the competition for girls. Sucking drinks called ''Illusions'' out of tall plastic cups at less than half the price they'd pay in Australia, masses of youngsters writhe and sweat to the music all night, every night, up and down Kuta's infamous nightclub strip, Jalan Legian.
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