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Alcohol Causes Violence conference

By / 19 March 2010

Alcohol Causes Violence Conference
Te Papa, Wellington
Tuesday 23rd March
8.30am – 5.00pm

Registrations for this conference have now closed, but you can still access the conference live in two ways (details below).

Why this conference?
A seismic shift of national thinking is urgently needed on violent crime in New Zealand. To date the issue has been dominated by punitive policies that largely do not work. Years of popularist “solutions” have given us longer sentences, overflowing prisons but no reduction in violence. We have been looking in the wrong place, while New Zealand becomes increasingly unsafe.

Who is involved?
This historic meeting is hosted by the University of Otago, Wellington School of Medicine. It brings together two main streams of people; those who are concerned about law and order, and those who are concerned about public health. The bridge is the damage being caused by the excessive commercialisation
of alcohol. The lack of sufficient regulations controlling the supply and sale of alcohol maximizes heavy drinking.

The conference will be available online if you have broadband. Just go to http://www.r2.co.nz/20100323/ and follow the instructions. This webcast will run from 8:30am on Tuesday the 23rd of March 2010, and an edited version will be available up on the website a week after the conference.

Those outside Wellington can also view the conference live at one of 12 public meetings where the speakers and discussion will be screened live on a big screen, along with refreshments. This is available in the following places:

Northland
North Shore
Central Auckland
Otara
Tauranga
Motueka
Nelson
Blenheim
Christchurch
West Coast (delayed coverage – week after)
Timaru
Dunedin

with other venues TBC.

Contact Fergus Wheeler for venue details and contacts – coordinator@alcoholaction.co.nz

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