Be Nice to Brain
21/11/2024
Be Nice To Brain is a digital awareness campaign that provides clear, evidence-based health information about the link between alcohol, mental health and wellbeing.
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Be Nice To Brain is a digital awareness campaign that provides clear, evidence-based health information about the link between alcohol, mental health and wellbeing.
I find alcohol advertising very intrusive. It’s everywhere, and not just billboards, it follows me into my home.
As Australia has built our policies around the prevention of family, domestic and sexual violence, the role of alcohol has been denied.
Violence involving alcohol increases at the time of football grand finals and the State of Origin. The link is so strong that the Rapid Review of Prevention Approaches for family and domestic violence recommended that “alcohol advertising be restricted during sporting events”.
Our phones connect us to friends and family, to news and entertainment, to shopping and banking. As we scroll, search
New research released today unveils how Facebook targets people who are at risk of harm with alcohol and gambling advertising.
Proud Palawa woman Nicole Hewlett explains how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples play a fundamental role in addressing alcohol and violence within their communities.
The industry body representing commercial television stations is seeking to extend the times that alcoholic products can be advertised by about 800 hours each year.
FARE team member Jo shares how cutting out alcohol, alongside other changes in her life, made a palpable difference to her mental health.
Dr Ingrid Wilson explores her research that has aimed to elevate the voices of women whose experience of alcohol-related violence are rarely heard – and often overlooked.
More than 200 community leaders have called on the NT Government to keep in place measures that work to reduce alcohol-related harm.
Children and young people should be able to experience the benefits that come with engaging in the online world, without being commercially cyberstalked with aggressive and potentially dangerous marketing.
Privacy reform is urgently needed, with few checks and balances for data-driven marketing practices. This is most evident when you look at what is happening with kids data online.
All Australians should have the opportunity to be healthy, safe and free from the many ways that alcohol causes harm to people, families and communities.
Using Influence Engine, people can discover various activities of corporations, including alcohol companies.
For far too long, it was politically controversial to take action. Alcohol was blatantly ignored, when it’s a known accelerant for domestic, family and sexual violence.
FARE lodged a submission to the Queensland Government on the proposed amendments to the Liquor Act 1992 and the Wine Industry Act 1992.
Alcohol wasn’t a big factor in Rebekah’s life before she started her dream career in nursing.
New research shows one in six children have experienced harm from the alcohol use of adults around them, including verbal abuse and violence.
During FASD Awareness Month, I share my story to help break the stigma, and support people on a similar path to finding the best care for their children.
A new economic report looking at what Australia invests in preventive health has found Australia ranks poorly on the world stage and has determined that governments must spend more wisely to contain the burgeoning healthcare budget.
Health experts have today warned the McGowan Government that its planned liquor reforms risk increasing alcohol’s availability, exposing communities to even greater levels of alcohol harm, and jeopardising the state’s reputation as Australia’s leading public health jurisdiction.
Now in its eighth year, the ‘Annual alcohol poll 2017: Attitudes and behaviours’ found almost eight in ten (78%) of respondents believe Australia has a problem with excess drinking, and a growing majority (81%) think more should be done to reduce alcohol harm.
One in seven presentations to ACT emergency departments are alcohol-related. Now a new national study will reveal where those harms are occurring, which alcohol outlets cause the most harm, and how ACT policing can best target its violence prevention efforts.
Leading health organisations are calling on the Commonwealth to address Australia’s significant underinvestment in preventive health and set the national agenda to tackle chronic disease ahead of Labor’s National Health Policy Summit today.
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.
Queensland’s Legal Affairs and Community Safety Committee has been warned proposed amendments to current liquor legislation risk undermining efforts to tackle alcohol-fuelled violence, according to health experts and advocacy groups.
There has been explosive growth in the number of ‘big-box’ liquor stores established in Victoria over the last 15 years.
A majority of Queenslanders (64%) believe the State Government should honour its election commitment to introduce 1am lockouts on 1 February.
The Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE) has called for the current state-wide 10pm bottle shop closing time to remain in place, with evidence suggesting a significant reduction in all assaults in regional New South Wales (NSW).
New research has confirmed Canberrans have a major problem with alcohol, with alcohol-related crime in the nation’s capital estimated to cost taxpayers $11.7 million.
Domestic violence and alcohol experts, doctors, Indigenous leaders, and leading researchers say that failing to address the role of alcohol at this week’s Council of Australian Governments (COAG) summit on family violence will be a missed opportunity that risks the safety of families across Australia.
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