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When the government introduced a 70% tax hike on alcopops, it promised the measure would fill public coffers and limit teenage quaffers. Crikey intern Shaun Ewart reports the actual result was different.

The Scots learn that the more booze you buy, the more you drink, and the Spaniards design a cracking submarine — that is so heavy it sinks. Plus other political views noted along the way.

The NT government’s abolition of the Banned Drinkers Register has divided opinion in Central Australia. Swinburne Institute for Social Research research fellow Eleanor Hogan reports for Inside Story.

Despite the claims of anti-alcohol campaigners, Australians are drinking less — yes, even Generation Y.

The constant claims about the dangers of rising alcohol use in Australia don’t match reality. Crikey fact checks some of the statements made by the wowser lobby.

Around Australia there are many people outside the preventive health sector who are working hard to combat the impact of too much booze, write health researchers Michael Thorn and Sandra Jones.

Some persistent themes run through campaigns by the preventive health lobby to ban and tax things. But should these taxpayer-funded elites be allowed to crack down on what they disapprove of?

Up in Darwin the political chiefs of the Liberal Country Party are wielding the hatchet to bring about peace by exterminating unfriendly public servants.

A Melbourne research fellow argues that reducing the density of liquor outlets also reduces domestic violence. The downside in this sort of thinking is that it deflects attention from root causes, writes Alan Davies.

Tasmania is moving to ban battery hen farming.

Wayne Swan has done his best to stop the rot of declining support for Labor. I very much doubt that it will be enough.

Listen to the views of the fun police and you would think that Australia has embarked on some new kind of alcohol explosion.

Kevin Rudd, it seems, is not unique.

Perhaps Woolworths will ask the producers to add a Bon Scott label drawing attention to the coroner’s finding that the original lead singer for the band died of “acute alcohol poisoning”

Short term memory loss is a helpful attribute for a politician.