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Alcohol companies continue to play by their own rules, putting our children’s health at risk 

Last year, a Dan Murphy’s mobile billboard rolled into Byron Bay, parking itself 185 metres from Byron Bay High School. Emblazoned across it read, “Go for a skate while you wait for your Dan Murphy’s order to arrive.”

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How community groups successfully kept alcohol tax cuts out of Federal Budget 2022  

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends alcohol taxation as one of the most effective ways to prevent and reduce alcohol harms. Introducing this form of taxation is a double win – not only does it reduce risky alcohol use, but it also increases government revenue through tax, thereby contributing toward services that address alcohol harms.

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Policy

How digital marketing of alcohol, gambling and junk food harms consumers

Researchers are lifting the lid on online ads for alcohol and other harmful products.

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Health

Reflections from NOFASD Australia’s FASD Forum 

Earlier this month, NOFASD Australia hosted its virtual FASD Forum and explored the theme ‘FASD@50’, commemorating 50 years since FASD was first identified in the literature. Read on for some of the key topics shared by presenters.

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Community stories

A story waiting to be told: Darwin community victory against Woolworths 

This was a huge community victory. And everyone MUST know this story. That’s why we want to help people in the NT tell the story in their own voice and be heard by the entire world.

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Community stories

One year on: Celebrating a monumental community victory in the Northern Territory

Today we celebrate the first anniversary of the community victory against Woolworths and their plan to build an alcohol store outside dry Aboriginal communities in Darwin.

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Community stories

Alcohol companies are profiting off our pain

Despite the increasing harms alcohol is causing in Australia, alcohol companies have been lobbying the Government to cut alcohol taxes. As an advocate with her own experience of family violence, Kym shares her reflections.

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Community stories

Gut-wrenching sound of alcohol delivery in an abusive relationship

Alcohol has long been linked to family violence and can increase the frequency and severity of family violence instances. Kym Valentine is an experienced television and theatre actor a member of the Victim Survivors’ Advisory Council (VSAC), which advises the Victorian Government on family violence policy and the implementation of the Royal Commission into Family Violence recommendations.

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Community stories

Corporations must do better if we are to have any chance of building a better future for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

Late last year (2021), FARE together with Northern Territory Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, community and health organisations made a submission to an Inquiry about corporate engagement with First Nations people.

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Health

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

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

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

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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