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The goal of the National Alcohol Strategy 2001 to 2003–4 is ‘to build a healthier and safer community by minimising alcohol-related harm to the individual, family and society while recognising the potential social and health benefits from alcohol’. Prepared for the Intergovernmental Committee on Drugs by members of the National Expert Advisory Committee on Alcohol (NEACA), the National Alcohol Strategy was endorsed by the Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy in July 2001.
Pricing and Taxation For example, the objective of key strategy area 6 – Pricing and Taxation – is to deliver ‘systems of pricing and taxation that have a positive public health impact, particularly in terms of minimising harm related to the misuse of alcohol’. The required action identified in the National Alcohol Strategy to achieve this objective is to provide ‘incentives to choose lower strength alcohol products’ – that is incentives to consume, market and sell lower-alcohol beverages. The strategy document concludes that ‘pricing and taxation regimes that create incentives for consumption of lower-alcohol beverages in preference to comparable high strength alcohol beverages can contribute to the reduction of alcohol-related harm’. The National Alcohol Strategy 2001 to 2003–4, the background paper Alcohol in Australia: Issues and Strategies, and further information can be found at the National Drug Strategy website Back to Top 
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