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Aboriginal issues and the Liquor Licensing Act (WA)

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  • Project status: Completed
  • Start date: October 1993
  • Expected end date: September 1995
  • Completion date: December 1995
  • Funded by: Aboriginal Planning Authority
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Project Description

This project developed a submission on Aboriginal issues to the Committee of Inquiry into the Liquor Licensing Act 1988. The project was a collaborative one between the Aboriginal Legal Service, the Perth Aboriginal medical Service (now Derbarl Yerrigan Health Service), the National Centre for Research into the Prevention of Drug Abuse now the National Drug Research Institute) and the Aboriginal Advisory Council's Royal Commission Reference group.

The submission: presented a summary review of alcohol use and alcohol related problems among Aboriginal people in Western Australia; reviewed the effectiveness of the then current Liquor Licensing Act in, (a) regulating the sale, supply and consumption of alcohol, and (b) minimising the harm caused by excessive alcohol consumption; presented a set of proposals for changes to the Act aimed at minimising the harm caused by excessive alcohol consumption and which maximisd the opportunity for Aboriginal people to determine the conditions under which alcohol consumption could take place in their communities.

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  • Co-investigator: S Davies,
  • Co-investigator: M Drandich,
  • Co-investigator: Lisa Moore,
  • Co-investigator: R Riley,
  • Co-investigator: Edward Wilkes, Curtin University
  • Co-investigator: D Wallam,
Project Contact

Professor Dennis Gray
Professor
Tel: 61 (0)8 9266 1624
d.gray@curtin.edu.au
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Related Publications

Gray, D. and Wallam, D. (1995). A Review of the Report of the Minister for Racing and Gaming on the Review of the Liquor Licensing Act 1988, June 1995: A Report prepared for the Aboriginal Justice Council. National Centre for Research into the Prevention of Drug Abuse, Division of Health Sciences, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia. [R78]

Gray, D., Drandich, M., Moore, L., Wilkes, E., T., Riley, R. and Davies, S. (1995). Aboriginal wellbeing and liquor licensing legislation in WA. Australian Journal of Public Health, 19, (2), pp. 177-185. doi:10.1111/j.1753-6405.1995.tb00370.x [RJ192] View web page

Gray, D. and Drandich, M. (1993). Aboriginal issues and the Liquor Licensing Act 1988. National Centre for Research into the Prevention of Drug Abuse, Division of Health Sciences, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia. [R38]