The Government is “Doing Something” about binge drinking. But it’s the mooted advertising restrictions that will be tricky, writes Bernard Keane.
Alcohol
Where inflation hurts
Since the election of 2004 the CPI has risen 8.3% but an actual decline in the cost of clothing and small rises in the cost of household goods and communications disguise the somewhat sharper rises in the price of food, alcohol and tobacco, rents, health and education, writes Richard Farmer.
Kevin Rudd and alcohol induced blackouts
The reality is that people who usually drink within bounds are prone to overdoing it when the occasion beckons. None of us should consider ourselves entirely safe when it comes to drinking. Kevin Rudd can vouch for that.
Grog to become compulsory in the NT
There’s times when it’s no consolation to say that you read it in Crikey first. There’s some things you just don’t want to be right about.
The serious drinking towns: Alice Springs, Tennant Creek and Katherine
If Minister Brough is really serious about his pledge to rid communities of the “rivers of grog”, a good start would be to go much closer to the source of the “rivers”, writes Graham Ring.
Alcohol bans: the job’s almost done
Banning alcohol is a key element of the prime Minister’s Northern Territory emergency plan. This is a list of areas and communities in the territory in which alcohol bans already apply.
