MEDIA ALCOHOL ADVERTISING
I heartily agree about opposing alcohol but definitely NOT as prohibition (history has proven time and time again that Prohibition cannot and does not work). Personally, I love a beer with a nice Indian curry! I am opposed to any media advertising of alcohol and especially any promotion of it as a necessary social lubricant... The topic is, essentially, about harm minimization. About not glamorizing it to youth and children or those with potential substance and drug abuse problems.
Incidentally, Chloe Swarbrick, (Greens Party) a get-up-and-go person, has just (circa June, 2021) floated a Bill proposal in Parliament opposing alcohol advertising. The Labour Party also has a long held and firm Party resolution on on their books about NO alcohol advertising.
The Alcohol sector has a LOT of Parties' election funds to spread around and can purchase the finest governments money can buy! The Australian Federal Government banned alcohol advertising some 30 years or so ago.
The Nats have NO interest in banning alcohol advertising because, Simon Bridges (my personal eye-to eye meeting with him) says it "will cost jobs." A very typical NeoLiberal political stance.
Regards, Robert Walker, B.A. Grad. Dip Sc. PG Cert.Arts.
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79.7% Yes! It's better to regift what I don't need
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20.3% No. It's the thought and effort that matters
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