Australia is at a critical point on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
10/09/2025
After decades of advocacy from families, clinicians and researchers, awareness of FASD is higher than ever in 2025.
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After decades of advocacy from families, clinicians and researchers, awareness of FASD is higher than ever in 2025.
Growing up as a gay man in regional Australia, Andrew Addie felt encouraged to drink and surrounded by a culture of alcohol.
The Red Shoes Rock campaign raises awareness of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), which affects up to one million Australians.
The Western Australian government has recently been consulting on their second round of liquor licencing reforms by inviting feedback on a Discussion Paper. These reforms are happening in the context of significant national commitments to reduce alcohol-related gendered-violence.
Find out how you can get involved in this exciting global campaign to raise awareness of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)!
Community groups and survivor-advocates have called for an urgent overhaul of alcohol laws after the South Australian Royal Commission into Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence concluded that alcohol is a key factor in violence towards women and children.
Speak to any frontline worker supporting domestic and family violence survivors and they’ll tell you that alcohol is often part of the story.
Children need environments that are safe and support their wellbeing and this extends to digital spaces. However, children are currently subjected to pervasive data collection and profiling practices in digital environments, often without genuine consent or understanding.
Actor/Victim-Survivor Kym Valentine celebrates ACMA’s push to revisit a loophole that currently allows alcohol ads during sports broadcasts.
This August, a group of people will hit the streets of Sydney for a deeply personal cause: reducing stigma and raising awareness of alcohol harms.
Today community, health and children’s organisations have welcomed the Australian Communication and Media Authority’s decision to reject proposed changes to the Commercial TV Industry Code of Practice.
FARE conducted polling in South Australia to understand community attitudes toward alcohol law reforms aimed at reducing family and domestic violence linked to the online sale and rapid delivery of alcohol.
New research reveals almost 80 per cent of South Australians support proposed changes to alcohol laws that would reduce family and domestic violence and protect the community from rising alcohol harm.
Increasingly, Tasmanians are cutting back or cutting out alcohol. Learn how to enjoy this year’s Tasmania winter festival season without alcohol.
Be Nice To Brain has reached tens of thousands of Tasmanians since launching six months ago. This is what the campaign’s impact looks like so far.
Alcohol doesn’t cause violence, but it does exacerbate it. When the accessibility of alcohol increases, so does violence.
New research has revealed that children are exposed to alcohol product advertising on commercial television, highlighting the urgent need to close loopholes in the Commercial Television Industry Code of Practice.
Research shows that when children are exposed to alcohol marketing, they are more likely to start to drink alcohol at a younger age, and to go on to drink alcohol at high-risk levels later in life.
Angelene Bruce, the biological mother of a thriving child with FASD, is using her lived experience to help others achieve alcohol-free pregnancies.
In the six months before her death in 2023, Victorian woman Kathleen Arnold had 319 alcohol products delivered to her home.
Australia is falling behind the rest of the world in protecting kids from predatory digital marketing of harmful products like alcohol, unhealthy food and gambling, according to a new report released today.
New research has exposed the risks posed by the sudden growth in online alcohol sales and delivery, finding high levels of risky drinking associated with rapid delivery services.
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.
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.
All alcohol advertisements should carry a health warning to provide greater protection for consumers – in particular to guard the right of children to safely interact in the digital world.
Vulnerable groups, including children, are the object of direct alcohol marketing in the booming digital ecosystem, and the dire lack of regulation and transparency of digital platforms makes this a lucrative space for alcohol companies to recruit drinkers.
An American company selling copycat icy-poles spiked with alcohol has been censured for irresponsible and dangerous behaviour.
Stop marketing alcohol to children on television and you would reduce youth drinking.
An overview of the findings of a baseline survey undertaken as part of the project Risky drinking among undergraduate university students: a social norms-based approach.
The Canberra Cavalry Baseball Team and the Australian Baseball League are facing mounting criticism over a damning video made public today highlighting a dangerous and harmful alcohol culture at the Canberra Club.
A new national poll has revealed that nine in every 10 Australian parents are opposed to the high volume of alcohol advertising their children are exposed to during sports including tennis, cricket, Rugby League, and Aussie Rules.
Ahead of the first Ashes Test in Brisbane on Thursday, new polling has found more than four out of five Australians believe that the alcohol industry should not be allowed to advertise alcoholic beverages to children during children’s television viewing times.
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