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Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE)
"What a day, is it wine time yet?" Australia's casual attitude to alcohol is such that excessive drinking is often normalised and the harmful effects of the drug are ignored. Marketing by alcohol corporations encourages alcohol [...]
Pat from Pierce Brothers
Zooming down Bourke Street Mall on my lunchbreak, I have seen numerous buskers. Yet no act draws a crowd like Pierce Brothers, the multi-instrumental identical twins. Jack plays the didgeridoo and percussion or lute instruments, [...]
Pam Ahern of Edgar’s Mission
I have never before conducted an interview which is interrupted by a lamb bleating at the front door. Yet, for as long as Pam Ahern can remember, animals have captured her heart, her head and even [...]