What’s Elvis Presley got to do with alcohol labelling?Health Minister Nicola Roxon could do with ‘a little less conversation, a little more action’ when it comes to health warnings on alcohol labels, writes Jennifer Doggett.
Alcopops 
Foster’s intranet goes public — here are the highlights
Foster’s Group’s IT management seems to have lost the plot, with the company accidently opening up their intranet to the web.
Political snippets: A double dissolution trigger is coming
It has been a while coming but Labor will have its double dissolution trigger soon enough. All in the name of alcopops.
Will those damn alcopops never go away?
The nation’s 15-year-olds have much to answer for.
Did Fielding do a deal with the spirits industry over alcopops?
Was DSICA’s agreement to instruct its members to stop advertising on TV before 9pm in exchange for Fielding’s move to stymie the government’s proposed tax? asks Jennifer Doggett.
Meeja conned by booze “ad ban”
The latest “advertising ban” proposed by alcohol distillers is an opportunistic marketing ploy, writes Glenn Dyer.
Crossing the Floor with Bernard Keane: The debut episode
The inaugural episode of the new vodcast from our Canberra correspondent Bernard Keane: Crossing the Floor
Foreign alcopops winners drink to Senator Fieding
So who is the Distilled Spirits Council that Senator Fielding and Malcolm Turnbull have gifted $290 million in alcopops tax to? Glenn Dyer invesitgates.
Steven Fielding is meeting Jesus for a coffee at Zucchero in Manuka…
So how are you doing Steven?
Alcopops memo to the Senate: It’s the taste, stupid
We should not expect people’s tastes in alcohol to switch at a wave of the Treasurer’s wand, writes Jennifer Doggett.
Big Alcohol’s cosy relationship with the Senate
The powerful spirits industry has mounted a fierce lobbying campaign to persuade senators to reject the Rudd Government’s alcopops legislation, writes Alex Mitchell.
Access and alcopops and evidence for hire
Access Economics’ alcopops report has rightly been described by Health Minister Nicola Roxon as being “as dodgy as a three day-old kebab”, writes Professor Mike Daube.
Kevin Rudd’s dog and the Glossy mags
The truth about Abigail
France cracks down on underage drinking
A new advertising campaign will target binge drinking among the young in France, writes Charles Richardson.
In defence of alcopops
The excise on ready-to-drink alcohol is a government cash grab, plain and simple, writes Doug McKay, Executive Chairman of Independent Distillers Australia.
Alcohol industry needs to cut the cr-p on alcopops
If the independent and minor party Senators who hold the balance of power reject the Rudd Government’s tax on ready-to-drink pre-mixed spirits (RTDs), they will reward the alcohol industry for misleading the Senate Inquiry into RTDs, writes Geoff Munro.
Media briefs and TV ratings: Satin watch, nice alcopop placement, WA Today
Satin watch … nice alcopop placement … WA Today name of new Fairfax venture? … Melbourne and Adelaide heart Ramsay
Alcopops are one thing, but what about the Reserve Bank?
We’re been deluged with alcopops coverage, but why isn’t a completely irresponsible raid on the Reserve Bank being debated? asks Stephen Mayne.
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The budget, alcopops and Brendan Nelson … judicial independence … the US and isolationism … baby bonus … Israel …
Mungo: Nelson joins the list of Budget losers
The budget came and went and was a bit of a non-event, but there are still winners and losers, including the leader of the Opposition, writes Mungo MacCallum.
Nelson’s petrol price cut = embarrassing farce
Aping Clinton and McCain’s ideas on cutting petrol price is laughbaly bad politics, argues Adam Schwab.
Beware the wrath of the stay-at-home mum
Wayne Swan’s budget failed to mention stay-at-home mums at all amid grandstanding about increasing child care rebates for PM Kevin Rudd’s much vaunted “working families”, writes Neil Walker.
Get stuck into the wine, penny-pinchers!
Spirit drinkers are being slugged considerably more for their booze than beer drinkers. But it’s the winos who win the excise wars, writes Richard Farmer .
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
Instead of standing up for stay-at-home mums or solar panels, the Opposition Leader has sided with ‘ute men’ and underage drinkers.
How do you sleep at night, Stephen Riden?
You creep!
