No nature, just nurture: alcohol-fuelled violence.

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Given the topic of last night’s Four Corners and Jill Stark’s recenarticle in The Age’s Daily Life section, Australia is beginning to face up to what is one of its  biggest ignominies: our relationship to alcohol.

Not that anyone should be surprised, we’ve all known it for years, we just don’t admit it. The ‘larrikinism’ of the ‘Australian’ character, the cheeky-wink-and-a-nudge attitude of ‘Go on Continue reading