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Alcohol - Health and Social Aspects

Alcohol, or Ethyl Alcohol, is an intoxicating ingredient found in alcoholic beverages. Alcoholic beverages can be categorised into three generic classes: beers, wines and spirits. Ethanol is a psychoactive drug that is found to have a depressant effect on all human beings. Everyday millions of people around the world suffer from negative after-effects of drinking alcohol [...]

Alcohol Advertising in the Mass Media

Advertising and the promotion of alcohol in the media and through sport sponsorships is a major contributing factor to the ongoing alcohol problem in Australian society. Teenagers are especially at risk from campaigns that mix sexual attraction with alcohol. Advertising that appeals to teenagers, links alcohol with sexual and sporting success, and encourages questionable standards of [...]

Australian Weddings - Traditions and Etiquette

The marital union of, usually, a man and a woman is a life cycle event celebrated in all cultures and is the focus of considerable folklore. This begins with beliefs and customs that may be observed in the lead-up to the wedding day. For example, in many Christian or European societies it is widely believed to [...]

Unpretentious Melbourne: Australian Football Capital of Australia

As so often in Australia’s history, Melbourne was founded through deception when explorer John Batman, an Australian who spoke in several aboriginal languages, made a “deal” with aborigines to lease land on behalf of investors. While offering the Aborigines any compensation at all was progressive in a colonial culture that preferred to simply run them [...]