In an effort to limit the impact of alcohol on the Western Australian health system during the COVID‐19 pandemic, the WA Government introduced temporary restrictions on takeaway alcohol purchases for several weeks in March and April 2020. In response, Big Alcohol lobbied the WA Government to remove the restrictions and replace them with a voluntary alcohol industry initiative.
In this guest expert blog post Julia and Danica expose key strategies of alcohol industry interference.
They reveal unique insights into how the alcohol industry attempts to interfere in public health policy, putting profit over the human right to health.
