The Australian Financial Review covers Drink Tank

Editorial:

Drink Tank launched last Friday with a mission to kick start a meaningful conversation and debate about alcohol in Australia.

We’re delighted then to see that conversation has already managed to find its way into the Australian Financial Review‘s newsroom.

We acknowledge that for a finance journo, alcohol policy’s not quite as exciting as mergers, acquisitions and competition policy, but it’s great to see that Fairfax could pull at least one journalist away from investigating Pay TV piracy just long enough to devote a few column centimetres to discuss such an important social issue.

We’ll give the Fin Review credit for not beating around the bush.  The article, Elitist Prof in Plonk Price Push (Australian Financial Review, page 52, Monday 2 April 2012), manages to brand Mike Daube, ‘wowser-in-chief’ and ‘party pooper’ all in the space of the lead paragraph.

The Fin Review might have missed the mark on ‘meaningful’ and for that matter ‘accurate’, but we’re genuinely happy to welcome their voice to the conversation.

You’ll find the Fin Review article here, and Mike’s original Drink Tank post here. We’d love to share it with you in its entirety but sadly, unlike the open world of Drink Tank, the article is hidden behind a pay wall.