Author Archives: John Toumbourou

Funding youth violence prevention is a neglected community investment

There is currently no state government funding mechanism to support and sustain community crime prevention in Victoria. Given the available evidence shows that preventing youth volence and crime is a good investment, I call on the Victorian state government to set up funding mechanisms to support community crime prevention.   Recent reports have raised concern […]

The “alcopops tax”.

Senator Fielding and the opposition acted destructively and against scientific evidence in blocking the “alcopops tax”. On March 20th 2009 Senator Fielding voted with the opposition to veto the Rudd government’s “alcopops tax” – an excise on ready-to-drink, premixed spirit products (RTDs) introduced in April 2008. In vetoing the tax, Fielding and the opposition acted […]