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Content: The consequence is,  that when a man feels inclined to drink, he immediately looks out for someone  to drink with...At whatever hour of the day a mans meets another whom he has  not seen for say twelve hours, etiquette requires that he shall incontinently  invite him to come and drink. This is a custom that pervades every class in the  colony, and cannot be departed from without something more than a breach of  good manners." Finch Hatton 1887
Accompanying the social consumption is the round or shout. This  involves one person buying the drinks for a group of friends. Once everyone has  finished their drink, another person from the group will buy a round and so on until everyone has bought a round. As Hatton explained: "Shouting", or rather its meaning, is peculiarly  Australian. The shortest and most comprehensive definition of  "shouting" is to pay for the drink drunk by others. Drunkenness is  the vice of which "shouting" is a parasite." Contrary to what Hatton believed, shouting probably contributed to  Australia moving away from the  hard liquor drinking cultures that still prevail in Russia,  South America and East Asia, where extreme  drunkardness and death are common.