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Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Beware the wowsers who are trying to stop us enjoying a drink


James Campbell
May 15, 2007

FROM time to time, Australians worry about how much they drink. This should surprise no one in a country whose first currency was rum. The worriers about liquor have always been with us, but it is observable that each age produces temperance fanatics in its own image.

For the Victorians, the Demon Drink was a moral danger to society leading good men into sin, vice and depravity. In our age, wowsers clothe their arguments in pious talk about the threat to our health and the cost to the public purse. To observe the modern wowser in its native habitat, turn your eye to Grog Watch, "a weekly update of alcohol-related news" produced by the Community Alcohol Action Network. It's the War Cry for our times, and lately the news from the front is good. . . . .

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