Young Australians are drinking less – but older people are still hitting the bottle hard
- Written by Michael Livingston, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University
Young Australians are drinking less and less. But why?ShutterstockRecent research has provided yet more evidence that teen drinking in Australia is in steep decline. We first summarised this trend in 2015, and subsequent surveys have shown that the decline has continued. In the Deakin study, the proportion of adolescents (average age 14) reporting...