Nicola Roxon (Gellibrand, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Health and Ageing) Share this | Hansard source

That is right—I do not want to do you any harm of course by suggesting that you provided us with that information. What is clear is that people are hoping to deduce too much from a particular measure. It is not possible when you look at sales data to immediately link that sales data with the age of the purchaser, unless you want us to somehow require every single retailer to record the age of the particular person purchasing the product and to get them to come back and report who drank them. It is just not possible. A number of the questions that the shadow minister is asking cannot be answered. What I think is absolutely clear is that, considering these products are specifically marketed to young people, if you have a significant drop in alcopops sales then a large number of young people will be affected by that. That does not mean that it is a cure for everything.

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