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Now we know more, how much booze is too much? Now we know more, how much booze is too much? How did health experts come up with the new 10-drinks-a-week rule? What s the science behind it? And are drinking levels trending up or down? Normal text size Very large text size The COVID-19 pandemic has made many Australians more health conscious and keen to find ways to improve their wellbeing. One way is to pay attention to the amount of alcohol we drink, said Professor Anne Kelso, chief executive of the National Health and Medical Research Council, when she launched new national alcohol guidelines in December. ....
To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. At a 30 November meeting, NSW government cabinet ministers discussed a three-tiered system of depenalisation for the offence of personal drug possession. First spruiked by attorney general Mark Speakman, the step-in-the-right-direction policy gained broad, but not unanimous, support. A conservative minister went on to leak word of it to the Seven Network. It then misrepresented the policy as decriminalisation, whereas the government proposal doesn t aim to remove the criminal offence altogether, but it would rather heighten the threshold as to when sanctions apply. Under the depenalisation model, a person found in possession of ....