Call for tougher NSW alcohol laws
Wednesday 31 October 2012 @ 11.03 a.m. | Legal Research
The NSW government must introduce tougher laws to discourage parents and other adults
from supplying liquor to children, a key alcohol research group says.
The Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE) will make its call on Wednesday at a parliamentary committee's public hearing in Sydney into the provision of alcohol to minors.
FARE has released a NSW study showing that almost 20 per cent of parents who provide alcohol to children aged 13-17 allow it to be consumed without adult supervision.
FARE Chief Executive Michael Thorn said that every week in Australia one teenager died and another 60 were hospitalised due to alcohol, which was too easy for minors to obtain.
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