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  • Sober curiosity on the rise amid growing concern about alcohol

    Sober curiosity on the rise amid growing concern about alcohol

    Jasmine Lykissas The Australian legend of a man with a beer permanently in hand has shaped our country’s culture for the past two centuries. Drinking was transported to Australia during colonisation, when boatloads of prisoners from the Irish and British Isles would commiserate and celebrate with bottles of rum. Alcohol…

  • Nice to get a win for public health

    Nice to get a win for public health

    Dr Ingrid Johnston and Professor Simone Pettigrew   We often say in public health that it’s a long, hard game. Sometimes it feels as though the wins are incremental at best, and all too rare. All the more reason then, to celebrate them when they do happen. On Friday 17th…