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Otago research: high public support for more alcohol control
Thursday, 15 December 2011, 11:05 am | Alcohol Action NZ
Just a few days ago, a previously unreleased Health Sponsorship Council survey showed that the general public strongly support increasing the price of cheap alcohol, restricting hours of sale, raising the purchase age and reducing promotion and advertising of ... More >>
Top Alcohol Spokesperson Appointed To Health Promotion Board
Sunday, 20 November 2011, 10:23 am | Alcohol Action NZ
Government Shows Its Hand In Appointing A Top Alcohol Industry Spokesperson To The New Health Promotion Establishment Board More >>
Age of alcohol purchase related to suicide & homicide rates
Wednesday, 16 November 2011, 10:26 am | Alcohol Action NZ
New research in the US being released online tomorrow shows that people who begin drinking earlier in their lives are more likely to kill themselves or someone else later in their lives - not particularly surprising. But what was startling was the ... More >>
Open Letter to Tim Groser on Alcohol and TPPA
Friday, 11 November 2011, 12:31 pm | Alcohol Action NZ
Thank you for your reply to our letter seeking reassurance the government will not trade away New Zealand’s ability to limit the commercialisation of alcohol as part of the TPPA. More >>
Labour commits to regulating alcohol as Govt negotiates TPPA
Friday, 11 November 2011, 12:25 pm | Alcohol Action NZ
The government’s impotent Alcohol Reform Bill has provided the impetus for the Labour Party to release explicit plans for alcohol harm reduction as part of its Health Policy released today. More >>
Labour commits to reducing alcohol harm as TPP negotiated
Wednesday, 9 November 2011, 5:37 pm | Alcohol Action NZ
Alcohol irony - Labour commits to reducing harm from alcohol as Government embarks on free trade agreement negotiations that might stop any future government enacting them More >>
Is the TPPA about growth at all costs, including drinking?
Wednesday, 2 November 2011, 3:39 pm | Alcohol Action NZ
In attempting to be reassuring about the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), Hon Tim Groser has used the Alcohol Reform Bill as an example of the sort of regulation that will be possible under this new free trade agreement (see accompanying letter). More >>
Wine contains two Class B drugs
Wednesday, 5 October 2011, 3:00 pm | Alcohol Action NZ
Previously buried medical research undertaken in the UK published in 2005 has come to light showing that alcoholic drinks made through the fermentation of white and red grapes contain small amounts of a drug known as Fantasy. Fantasy is the street ... More >>
Weak Govt Response to Heavy Drinking Culture
Tuesday, 13 September 2011, 12:46 pm | Alcohol Action NZ
The Government is maintaining its impotent response to New Zealand’s heavy drinking culture and not even passing the Alcohol Reform Bill before the election “The situation is worse than we originally thought and it now looks as if the Government will leave ... More >>
Govt Set To Bury Alcohol Reform Bill By Week's End
Tuesday, 13 September 2011, 11:01 am | Alcohol Action NZ
Government in urgency, set to bury their weak Alcohol NON-Reform Bill by the end of the week More >>
Alcohol Action NZ Analysis of Revised Bill
Thursday, 25 August 2011, 5:28 pm | Alcohol Action NZ
Specific new measures in the Alcohol Reform Bill will be ineffective and highly time wasting for local communities More >>
9000 submissions virtually ignored in weak Alcohol Bill
Thursday, 25 August 2011, 5:26 pm | Alcohol Action NZ
“This revised Bill is still shamefully weak and ignores widespread public concern about the violence, misery and death caused by dangerous heavy drinking in NZ” said Professor Doug Sellman, medical spokesperson for Alcohol Action NZ. More >>
Alcohol Action optimistic that change will come
Friday, 8 July 2011, 1:23 pm | Alcohol Action NZ
Alcohol Action NZ has just completed its annual two-day meeting in Wellington and is optimistic that full alcohol law reform will occur in New Zealand, that it is now not a matter of if but when. "But there is a lot of work to do" said Professor ... More >>
Government about to bury the Alcohol Advisory Council (ALAC)
Friday, 17 June 2011, 1:21 pm | Alcohol Action NZ
“The government looks poised to bury ALAC” said Professor Doug Sellman, medical spokesperson for Alcohol Action NZ, today. On the 31st May, Bill English and Tony Ryall, in their roles of Deputy PM and State Services Minister respectively, announced ... More >>
When will NZ be serious about reducing alcohol harm?
Thursday, 12 May 2011, 10:00 am | Alcohol Action NZ
A minimum price for alcoholic drinks is set to become law in Scotland within a year, following the re-election of the Scottish Nationalist Party, who had vowed to make this a key priority. More >>
Government captured by alcohol corporations
Monday, 2 May 2011, 1:21 pm | Alcohol Action NZ
Four of New Zealand’s top public health scientists from the University of Otago’s Department of Preventive & Social Medicine have published a paper in the prestigious scientific journal Drug and Alcohol Review showing how pitiful the National-led government ... More >>
Alcohol Action NZ Supports Compromise
Thursday, 10 March 2011, 9:30 am | Alcohol Action NZ
Alcohol Action spokesperson Professor Doug Sellman will today urge the Alcohol Select Committee to adopt compromise alcohol proposals put forward by the New Zealand Hospitality Association, which represents the country's pub and bar owners. More >>
Bill Fails To Help Victims Of Drinking Culture
Thursday, 11 November 2010, 10:04 am | Alcohol Action NZ
The Government's new 225-page Alcohol Reform Bill, tabled in Parliament yesterday, fails to help the 700,000 heavy drinkers in New Zealand, nor the children, loved ones and innocent bystanders who are also victims of their dangerous drinking, Alcohol ... More >>
Govt fails to help the victims of drinking culture
Wednesday, 10 November 2010, 2:13 pm | Alcohol Action NZ
The Government’s new 225-page Alcohol Reform Bill, tabled in Parliament yesterday, fails to help the 700,000 heavy drinkers in New Zealand, nor the children, loved ones and innocent bystanders who are also victims of their dangerous drinking, Alcohol ... More >>
Reforms will make no substantial difference
Monday, 23 August 2010, 3:48 pm | Alcohol Action NZ
The Government's keenly awaited alcohol reforms will make no substantial difference to New Zealand's heavy drinking culture, nor to the scale of harm being suffered by individuals and families from dangerous drinking, says Alcohol Action spokespeople. More >>
