Jan McLucas (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Ageing) Share this | Hansard source

It hasn’t. Over the same period there was an increase—sorry—in beer consumption by 6.1 per cent. However, since the increase in the rate of excise of RTDs, the growth in excisable alcohol consumption of beer, spirits and RTDs has slowed. The ATO clearance figures show that the growth in excisable alcohol weakened by 0.1 per cent—