Canberra Skeptics Lecture: Seeing Through The Haze – A Clear Perspective On Australia’s Drinking Culture

Speaker: Michael Thorn
Date: Tuesday, 21st of June 2011
Time: 6:00 — 7:30 p.m.

Place: Optus Theatre, CSRIO Discovery Science Centre,

Clunies Ross Street Acton ACT 2601

Free Admission

Michael Thorn, Chief Executive of the Alcohol Education & Rehabilitation Foundation, will talk about what we do and don’t know about the way we drink in Australia.

In this lecture Michael will provide an overview of what alcohol use looks like in Australia. This will include the current evidence base on Australia’s use of alcohol, the extent of alcohol-related harms, and the economic and social effects. He will also talk about Australia’s drinking culture, how this has changed overtime and how it now compares to other countries. This will include the drinking behaviour of children, Gen Y, Gen X, and baby boomers.

Finally, he will examine how the community perceives alcohol, the framing of policy responses, and the effectiveness of population-wide measures to address alcohol misuse.

Michael Thorn has extensive experience in strategic social policy development and implementation, most recently in Canberra and previously as a policy director of the Western Australian Department of the Premier and Cabinet from 2001 until 2008. He has also worked as a policy and management consultant in the fields of housing, Indigenous affairs, regional economic development and employment, and early in his career was a policy adviser and chief of staff to a number of WA Cabinet ministers.

www.aerf.com.au

No need to book but note that theatre holds 106.

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For further information, please visit the Canberra Skeptics website:

http://www.canberraskeptics.org.au