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Archive - February 2013

The weird world of wine

The current taxation on wine in Australia is done on the basis of value of wine not on the amount of ethanol it contains. The rest of the ethanol industry – beer, spirits, etc is taxed volumetrically. The effect of the...

Breaking bad…habits

New research by the University of Western Australia (UWA) has revealed that people who live near bottle shops engage in more harmful drinking of alcohol than those who don’t. It also shows that easy access to alcohol...