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NSW MLC Robert Borsak has been accused of propagating a dangerous fiction that would derail Sydney’s new vibrancy, threaten community health and safety, and put the city’s frontline emergency workers back in the firing line of violence, again.
Leading Canadian researchers shed light on FASD, by dispelling common misunderstandings and revealing some evidence-based truths
Most Australians are in the dark on alcohols strong link to cancer
The alcohol industry is using premier sporting events to flog their products during children’s viewing hours
Evidence continues to mount on alcohol’s harm, but its availability, promotion and supply have increased. So who is really calling the shots?
Cricketing legend John Inverarity says its society’s responsibility raise our children well and remove alcohol’s links to sport.
The Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education has today welcomed a decision that will finally ensure alcohol products include effective warning labels that state that there is no safe level of alcohol consumption for pregnant women.
On 11 October 2018 the Ministerial Forum on Food Regulation for Australia and New Zealand decided to mandate the application of pregnancy warning labels on all packaged alcohol products.
AFL identities Mick Malthouse and Rod Butterss, Australian cricketing hero John Inverarity, dual Olympian Clover Maitland, extreme sportswoman and mountaineer Cheryl Bart, NRL great Steve Ella, and hockey legend Ric Charlesworth are among an elite group of sporting greats calling for a lifetime ban on alcohol advertising in sport.
Alcohol companies can choose whether or not to put a pregnancy warning on their label. So most of them don’t.
Is the Commonwealth Government daring to recklessly endanger the lives of Australia’s unborn children?
The 2009 National Health and Medical Research Council’s (NHMRC) Australian Guidelines to Reduce Health Risks from Drinking Alcohol recommends for women who are pregnant, for those who are planning a pregnancy and for those who are breastfeeding, not drinking alcohol is the safest option.
On the eve of the introduction of Minimum Unit Price (MUP) in the Northern Territory, the People’s Alcohol Action Coalition (paac) and the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE) say the Gunner Government is to be congratulated for putting the evidence first, and in turn prioritising the health, welfare and safety of the people of the NT.
This International FASD Awareness Day, leading public health body, the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE), is calling for further government efforts in the prevention and treatment of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD).
This International FASD Awareness Day, leading public health body, the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE), is calling for further government efforts in the prevention and treatment of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD).
FARE made its submission to Australian Government’s Research Australia in relation to the MRFF.
The alcohol industry’s business model depends on people drinking at harmful levels.
The Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE) congratulates the Northern Territory Government and the opposition for their bipartisan efforts in securing the passage of the landmark minimum unit price legislation in the NT Parliament.
A newly released analysis of alcohol industry submissions to the National Alcohol Strategy (NAS) consultation has exposed the lengths the alcohol industry will go to attack, undermine and subvert the development of alcohol policy measures that would reduce harm and save lives.
New research has revealed for the first time what impact cutting back on drinking and smoking as a population would have on Australia’s cancer death rate.
Market innovation for convenience is not a valid reason to allow alcohol companies to target vulnerable people via online alcohol sales and delivery.
Mandatory warning labels on alcoholic beverages will help to lower alcohol-exposed pregnancies.
The thinking and behaviour of students towards alcohol is slowly shifting
An ACT Health-funded campaign targeting the ACT’s university students has had a positive impact on the drinking culture of undergraduates with a significant drop in risky drinking.
ABC’s national survey reveals Australians believe alcohol is one of the biggest issues we face as a nation.
The industry continues to actively muddy efforts to educate the public of the harms of alcohol consumption
The NT community’s action to reduce alcohol-fuelled harm is saving individual lives and improving people’s health and wellbeing.
A road trip of reform is establishing a new Territory norm of progressively reducing alcohol-fuelled harm.
The alcohol lobby’s shockingly cynical response to a serious national problem
Lobbyists are watering down health policies in favour of harmful products.
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Most of us know the health risks and embarrassment alcohol can cause, so why is it so hard to give up or reduce consumption?
The Committee’s recommendations to roll back Sydney’s late-night measures has been condemned as gravely irresponsible and a reckless capitulation to the alcohol industry.
Why Australia’s useless alcohol marketing self-regulation fails to protect children from alcohol advertising in esports.
It will be a grand day when there are no more “FASD epiphanies”
Call for urgent reform of digital marketing
New research into esports shows that with explosive growth and investment, zero regulation and a young player base, producers of dangerous and unhealthy commodities are now targeting and exploiting a new vulnerable audience.
Prevention of disease is far preferable to treatment in every measure.
Does the NT want to gamble with the future ownership of a Darwin Dan Murphys?
After years of working as a police officer in Kings Cross, Pat Gooley illustrates why we must not wind things back to the blood-stained days before the late-night measures.
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