AMA National Summit on Alcohol Marketing to Young People

10.00AM – 1.30PM, WEDNESDAY 19 SEPTEMBER 2012

SENATE COMMITTEE ROOM 2S3

PARLIAMENT HOUSE, CANBERRA

The AMA – in association with the National Alliance for Action on Alcohol (NAAA) – is next week hosting the AMA National Summit on Alcohol Marketing to Young People at Parliament House in Canberra.

The Summit will discuss concerns around contemporary alcohol marketing to young people – including digital marketing and new media, sponsorship of sporting and cultural events, and marketing tricks and tactics – and the participants will make a united call on the Government to establish an Inquiry into alcohol marketing to examine stronger regulation and policy.

The AMA will also launch a new publication – Alcohol Marketing and Young People: Time for a new policy agenda – which exposes the failure of self-regulation in the alcohol industry, and makes recommendations for change.

AMA President, Dr Steve Hambleton, who is a member of the Australian National Health Prevention Agency (ANPHA) Expert Committee on Alcohol, will officially open the Summit, which will feature presentations from:

• Professor Mike Daube, Professor of Health Policy at Curtin University;
• Julia Stafford, McCusker Centre for Action on Alcohol and Youth;
• Professor Simone Pettigrew, Director, Health Promotion Evaluation Unit, UWA;
• Professor Sandra Jones, Director of the Centre for Health Initiatives, University of Wollongong;
• Dr Nicholas Carah, Lecturer in Mass Media and Communication, University of Queensland; and
• Dr Kerry O’Brien, Senior Lecturer in Behavioural Studies, Monash University.

There will also be a Discussion Panel of politicians and experts including:

• A/Prof Ted Wilkes, Chair, National Indigenous Drug & Alcohol Committee;
• Vince Kelly, President, Police Federation of Australia;
• Professor Geoffrey Dobb, AMA Vice President and Intensive Care Specialist;
• Dr Andrew Laming MP, Shadow Spokesman on Indigenous Health Services;
• Judi Moylan MP, Deputy Chair, Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs;
• Senator Claire Moore, Chair of the Community Affairs Legislative Committee;
• Graham Perrett MP, Deputy Chair of the Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs;
• Senator Richard Di Natale, Greens Spokesperson on Health;
• Senator Nick Xenophon; and
• Dr Sharman Stone MP.

Dr Hambleton and other Summit participants will be available for comment at a media doorstop in the Senate Courtyard, Parliament House, at 1.30pm, Wednesday 19 September.

The AMA National Summit on Alcohol Marketing to Young People is supported by and will include representatives from key organisations including:

• Foundation for Alcohol Education and Research (FARE);
• Alcohol and Other Drugs Council of Australia (ADCA);
• McCusker Centre for Action on Alcohol and Youth;
• Australian Youth Affairs Coalition (AYAC);
• Police Federation of Australia;
• Royal Australian College of Physicians
• Public Health Association Australia (PHAA);
• Australian National Preventive Health Agency (ANPHA);
• Australian Drug Foundation (ADF);
• National Heart Foundation;
• Australian National Council on Drugs (ANCD);
• National Indigenous Drug and Alcohol Committee (NIDAC);
• Byron Youth Service; and
• Cancer Council of Victoria.

Media are welcome to attend the Summit.

14 September 2012

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