Stirling Griff (SA, Centre Alliance) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Senator Scullion, representing the Minister for Health. Last Thursday the Australia and New Zealand Ministerial Forum on Food Regulation decided to proceed with mandatory pregnancy warnings on alcohol labels. This happened after seven years of failure by the alcohol industry to voluntarily introduce effective pregnancy warning labels across all products. It also comes just two months after the industry funded DrinkWise was forced to reissue posters in doctors' surgeries, because DrinkWise misrepresented the dangers of drinking while pregnant. I understand from the Foundation of Alcohol Research and Education that government provided DrinkWise with $230,000 over six months to distribute educational resources to rural and regional GPs' waiting rooms. How much money in total has the government provided to DrinkWise over the past two financial years to run public education programs, and was any of that funding provided for the misrepresented posters?