Alcohol taxation policy in Australia: public health imperatives for action

Awofeso, Niyi

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2009.tb02651.x

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There is nothing a government hates more than to be well informed; for it makes the process of arriving at decisions much more complicated and difficult. — John Maynard Keynes, 1938.

School of Population Health, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA.

Correspondence: niyi.awofeso@uwa.edu.au

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