Qld govt spends $1.5m on alcohol blitz

Curbing pub and club opening hours is not the answer to protecting revellers from alcohol-fuelled violence this Christmas, Premier Anna Bligh says.

A parliamentary law, justice and safety committee has been considering measures to reduce alcohol-related violence, including earlier closing time for pubs at midnight and clubs at 2am.

Speaking ahead of the release of the committee's interim report this week, Ms Bligh said such a move would need extensive planning and could not happen this year, if it was adopted.

"If we do something on a knee-jerk basis in this regard without having in place ... a crowd control, a taxi plan, a public transport plan, then we could actually make things worse than they are now," Ms Bligh told reporters on the Gold Coast on Sunday.

"So any change would have to be done very carefully and put in place a whole raft of operational measures to make sure that if those changes meant a whole lot more people at a particular time, on the street, we've got all of the trains, buses, taxis, crowd control, policing, council offices, et cetera, all ready to go."

She said violence was often sparked in long taxi queues.

The government will spend $1.5 million on policing entertainment hot spots to curb violence during the festive season.

Ms Bligh said the crackdown would deliver a minimum of 16,000 additional police hours and was aimed at reducing property damage, drunken violence and sexual assaults associated with heavy drinking during Christmas and New Year.

Besides ensuring patrons were well behaved, the operation would include inspections of pubs and clubs to ensure licensees were complying with responsible service of alcohol laws.

The blitz includes plain clothes patrols mingling as party goers to police under-age drinking and excessive levels of intoxication as well as highly visible uniformed patrols and dog squad operations.

The crackdown is planned for Brisbane's CBD, Fortitude Valley, Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, Coolum, Sunshine Coast, Airlie Beach, Whitsundays, Mackay's CBD, Townsville's CBD and Cairns' CBD.

Ms Bligh said the extra officers would be funded with a one-off payment for policing overtime and would be in addition to extra police employed for the road-safety campaign.

Meanwhile, a ban on glass in high-risk venues that was due to come in on December 1 has been pushed back until February due to legal action by publicans.

Ms Bligh said she was disappointed by the delay but respected that a court had ruled more time was needed in adopting the new rules.