Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I find it remarkable that in this whole debate about binge drinking and what governments can productively do to bring this problem back under control we have a clear choice between the two sides of politics: a government prepared to act and those opposite prepared purely to play politics with this, and politics of the lowest common denominator. That is the bottom line here. We have a policy to deal with binge drinking. We have more to do on this front. It is a problem brought to the government’s attention by police commissioners, health authorities and various state government authorities across the country. The last time I looked—and it is a position also on the question of the tax measure as it relates to alcopops—the position we have taken on alcopops was completely endorsed by the former senator in the gallery who has just been referred to; namely, former Senator John Herron—

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