The Prevention 1st Pre-Budget 2017-18 submission to Treasury identifies four actions to target the key chronic disease risk factors: alcohol consumption, tobacco use, physical inactivity and poor nutrition.
Category: Policy submissions
The Queensland Coalition for Action on Alcohol (QCAA) and the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE) welcome the opportunity to provide feedback on the proposed changes to the alcohol measures introduced under the Tackling Alcohol-Fuelled Violence legislation in 2016.
The submission places particular focus on strategies to reduce harm, one of the areas listed for comment within the Review of the Liquor Control Reform Act 1998 consultation paper.
FARE’s Pre-Budget submission 2017-18 to Treasury outlines broad support for alcohol tax reform, and proposes meaningful policy reforms, including better resourcing of interventions to reduce rates of FASD, eliminating harmful alcohol messaging in sport, and providing additional resources for better coordination between alcohol and other drug and family violence services.
FARE recognises that informed choice is only possible if consumers receive accurate, evidence-based and timely information, and outlines in the submission four areas for improvement in the updating and review of the Guidelines.
FARE’s submission provides comments on the Draft updated Appendix 3 of the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) Action Plan 2013-2020, and focuses on the actions relating to alcohol.
FARE’s submission to the Tasmanian Government’s Draft guidelines to support changes to liquor legislation – advertising and promotion of alcohol recommends that this opportunity be used to clearly articulate liquor licensees’ obligations in regards to advertising and promotion of alcohol under the Liquor Licensing Act 1990.
FARE’s submission to the Independent Review of the Impact of Liquor Law Reforms examines the harm and costs associated with trends in alcohol consumption in Australian in order to provide evidence-based policy recommendations for the continued reduction in the burden of alcohol in NSW.
This supplementary submission provides illustrative models on a range of alcohol policy topics, and serves as a compendium of practical reference materials that complements the submissions to the review from FARE, SANDAS, PHAA, and RACS.
This FARE, PHAA, and NAAA submission to the Senate Inquiry into the need for a nationally-consistent approach to alcohol-fuelled violence, highlights the ad hoc approach Australia has taken in its efforts to reduce alcohol harm despite long standing recognition of a significant problem in this country.
