Andrew Wilkie (Denison, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Health. Minister, recently the Alcohol's burden of disease report found that alcohol kills 15 Australians and hospitalises 430 ever day. But Canberra continues to pass the buck to the states, even though the costs of Australia's drinking culture have been so big for so long. Minister, will you hold a national summit involving key health professionals and elected representatives to devise a strategy similar to that for tobacco in order to address this serious problem?

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