Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Manager of Opposition Business in the House) Share this | Hansard source

I am doing that. The minister said that I was going soft on binge drinking. The minister specifically referred to the Insiders program, on which I was interviewed for perhaps 10 minutes about this issue, and I am specifically referring to the matter at hand. I went on to say:

The fact of the matter is two thirds of the drinks affected by the alcopop tax are in fact black spirits such as Bundy and different forms of rum. Most of them drunk by men over the age of 25. So this is not about attacking teenage binge drinking, this is about tax revenue …

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