Federal govt eyes alcohol violence inquiry Alcohol-fuelled violence across the nation will be the focus of a federal parliamentary inquiry. THE federal government is planning an inquiry into alcohol-fuelled violence across the country. Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion says the wide-ranging parliamentary probe will be aimed at finding better ways to tackle the problem, from downtown Sydney to remote outback communities. He says the government is still deciding which parliamentary committee will take on the inquiry. "This sort of inquiry that can look at alcohol management measures in all its shapes and forms," he told the ABC. [It] can inform us to make sure that the regulators and lawmakers across all the jurisdictions of Australia have the very best evidence under which to ensure that all our management plans in the future are effective and really change those negative aspects of alcohol consumption.