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Lessons from Queensland's last‐drinks legislation: The use of extended trading permits

Overview of attention for article published in Drug & Alcohol Review, April 2018
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Title
Lessons from Queensland's last‐drinks legislation: The use of extended trading permits
Published in
Drug & Alcohol Review, April 2018
DOI 10.1111/dar.12701
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Renee Zahnow, Peter Miller, Kerri Coomber, Dominique de Andrade, Jason Ferris

Abstract

The association between alcohol availability, alcohol consumption and, in turn, alcohol-related harms is well established. Policies to reduce alcohol-related harms focus on limiting accessibility through the regulation of the liquor industry, including trading hours. On 1 July 2016, the Queensland Government introduced legislation to reduce ordinary liquor trading hours, replacing 5 am closing times with 3 am cessation of liquor sales in designated entertainment precincts and 2 am cessation of sales across the rest of the state. However, the amendment was under-inclusive and did not apply to temporary extended trading permits, a provision of the Liquor Act 1992 allowing one-off variations in trading hours for special events. We use 24 months of data (1 January 2015 to 31 December 2016) from the Office of Liquor Gaming and Regulation to explore patterns of extended trading permit use across Queensland, pre- and post- 1 July 2016. We find that following the Amendment in 2016 there was also a distinct shift in the utilisation of temporary extended trading permits, with a 63% increase in approved permits between 2015 and 2016. Temporal clustering around key calendar events dissipated following 1 July 2016 with consistent concentration of permit utilisation over consecutive weeks. Using temporary extended trading permits venue owners avoided earlier closing times and continued to operate until 5 am. The findings provide lessons for future policy implementation by illustrating the capacity for under-inclusive legislation to result in the dilution of intended effects.

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Unknown 33 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 10 30%
Other 2 6%
Professor 2 6%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 6%
Professor > Associate Professor 2 6%
Other 2 6%
Unknown 13 39%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 6 18%
Psychology 4 12%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 9%
Mathematics 2 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 6%
Other 4 12%
Unknown 12 36%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 November 2018.
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#7,899,670
of 25,382,440 outputs
Outputs from Drug & Alcohol Review
#1,110
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#121,938
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Outputs of similar age from Drug & Alcohol Review
#19
of 27 outputs
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