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Greens Senator Dr Richard Di Natale takes issue with Bernard Keane’s analysis of “preventative health wowsers”. He says our Canberra correspondent is being tricky with numbers.

How do you get a right of reply in The Spectator Australia? asks Professor Mike Daube. It’s harder than you might think.

It may be wrong to glamorise drug and alcohol abuse, but this fascinating gallery of famous literary addicts — with names like Edgar Allan Poe, Phillip K. Dick and Hemingway — show that at least pain does make great art.

A smart man that Newton. He might have been dealing with motion but his third law regularly has a broader application: limiting binge drinking has created a cheap illegal drugs boom.

Unsafe drinking doesn’t only harm the drinker — many other people also pay a price, writes Jon Currie.

Both workers and employers could benefit if workplaces were more effectively engaged in efforts to tackle hazardous drinking, writes Ken Pidd.

To call for some reduction in the worst excesses of grog-fuelled, anti-social behaviour is to risk being branded a wowser, and ‘un-Territorian’, writes Graham Ring.

My concern with the Federal Government’s proposal is that it doesn’t put in place the preventative measures that indigenous people need to stop the violence, and then prevent it from reoccurring, writes Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner and Race Discrimination Commissioner Tom Calma.