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Our blog aims to generate meaningful commentary about alcohol policy, and to provide a platform for all members of the Australian community to share their views and concerns.

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Health

Smoking mirrors: Reduce Your Risk campaign highlights links between alcohol and cancer

Date February 4, 2022

It is well-known smoking causes cancer. We have heard this information for decades. It’s universally accepted. Common knowledge. What might surprise you is alcohol is also carcinogenic.

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Health

Every Moment Matters: The campaign to raise awareness of the risks of drinking alcohol while pregnant, planning a pregnancy, or breastfeeding and FASD

Date January 27, 2022

Every Moment Matters emphasises the message that ‘the moment you start trying, is the moment to stop drinking alcohol’

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Community stories

2021: The year in review

Date December 21, 2021

We are almost at the end of 2021 – and what a year this has been. Together, we elevated the voices of people and communities around Australia who are taking action on alcohol harms. And we made a real difference.

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Health

Alcohol use during pregnancy – new campaign

Date November 16, 2021

To help increase Australians’ understanding of the risks of drinking alcohol during pregnancy and while breastfeeding, the Australian Government has funded FARE to develop a national awareness campaign

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Policy

Abandon the proposed amendment to Queensland’s Liquor Act that makes temporary COVID-19 measures permanent

Date October 15, 2021

The COVID-19 Emergency Response – Permanency Amendment Bill fails to consider the overall health and wellbeing of all Queenslanders.

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Health

Opening remarks: ACT Legislative Assembly Standing Committee on health and community wellbeing

Date September 28, 2021

Opening remarks from Caterina Giorgi, CEO of the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education

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Community stories

Our journey: a family living with FASD

Date September 22, 2021

Neil Reynolds is Dad to five biological children and four long-term foster children, including two siblings who have been diagnosed with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)

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Health

Four things you can do to support Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder International Awareness Day

Date September 9, 2021

International FASD Awareness Day is an opportunity to raise awareness of FASD and the need to avoid alcohol during pregnancy

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Community stories

Celebrating visible health warnings: One year on since community alcohol and pregnancy victory

Date July 17, 2021

Seeing mandatory visible health warning labels on all alcohol products was a moment that people with FASD, their families, health groups, and community organisations have been fighting for more than 20 years

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Northern beaches of Sydney — Health

Alcohol use among women aged 35-59 years in Sydney’s Northern Beaches

Date April 23, 2021

Women living in the Northern Beaches of Sydney are hospitalised due to alcohol at a higher rate than any other region in NSW

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Parliament House of Australia — Policy

Removing alcohol from Parliament won’t solve its toxic culture, but it should be part of the approach

Date March 31, 2021

Over the weekend, Dr Katie Allen MP and Senator Sarah Henderson raised the possibility of alcohol being restricted or banned at Parliament House.

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Policy

FARE appears at Senate inquiry on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder 10 March

Date March 12, 2021

On Wednesday this week, FARE appeared before a Public Hearing of the Senate Inquiry into ‘Effective approaches to prevention, diagnosis and support for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder’ (FASD).

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