ALCOHOL POLICY Hotel lock-out trials Success with lock-out trials in SA (i.e. no entry after 1 am) in hotels at Port Lincoln, Whyalla and some other sites in reducing the incidence of alcohol-fuelled ...
ALCOHOL POLICY Alcohol advertising A study initiated by the Cancer Council Australia into television coverage of NRL and AFL football alleges that exposure to alcohol advertising, both scheduled and a...
ALCOHOL POLICY Drinking culture The annual poll conducted by the Foundation for Alcohol Research & Education (FARE) reveals that 40% of Aussies drink to get drunk and 75% believe that the nation h...
ALCOHOL POLICY Legislative changes The Federal Senate recently passed amendments to the Wine Australia Act, removing the onerous requirement for liquor retailers and wholesalers to keep detailed recor...
ALCOHOL POLICY Wine in supermarkets: The Foundation for Alcohol Research & Education has appealed to the SA Government to abandon a proposal to permit the sale of wine in supermarkets, saying that...
ALCOHOL POLICY Move for warning labels – again A group of vocal anti-alcohol bodies, including National Alliance for Action Against Alcohol, Alcohol Policy Coalition, Vic Health and Victorian Cancer C...
ALCOHOL POLICY Floor price support The Cancer Council has joined the debate over the introduction of a floor price for alcohol, saying such a move ‘is about reducing the consumption of under-priced al...
ALCOHOL POLICY Floor price – no more cheap wine? The Federal Government has asked the Australian National Preventative Health Agency to develop a model for floor-pricing alcohol and to report b...
ALCOHOL POLICY ETC Advertising caution The Advertising Standards Board (ASB) dismissed a complaint about Diageo’s Smirnoff, which centred on sexism, under-age drinking and obscene language. However, i...
ALCOHOL POLICY Benefits ban on alcohol As part of a pilot study, some struggling welfare=dependent households in selected suburbs in five Aussie cities will be banned from spending their welfare benef...
ALCOHOL POLICY Flavoured cask wine under fire New cask wine ‘infusions’, introduced recently by Banrock Station (Accolade Wines), have been slammed by public health expert Prof Daube as being directly...
ALCOHOL POLICY No glasses? The SA Government is considering banning the use of glasses in pubs and clubs from 4am to 7am to prevent attacks in licensed premises in which glasses are used as wea...