New Zealand Rolls out Alcohol Law Reform
The New Zealand (NZ) government has granted communities greater powers to set their own rules around alcohol sales, but wider alcohol law reform is expected to take time.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said she wasn’t comfortable with the way alcohol was currently marketed in the country.
However, given how “embedded” alcohol advertising and sponsorship was with the community, such as in local sports, it wasn’t something that could be changed quickly, she said.
“We just want to make sure that when we look at this area, we do it in a really considered and thoughtful way,” Ardern told Radio NZ. “We’re clear about the impacts it will likely have, where there has been a reliance on those forms of sponsorship and advertising.”…