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Drinking Age To Remain At 18 – Parlt. Votes 72-49
Drinking Age To Remain At 18 – Parlt. Votes 72-49 For Status Quo
NEWS BRIEF: MPs voted down the Sale of Liquor (Youth Alcohol Harm Reduction) Amendment Bill last night 72 votes to 49 on its Second Reading.
The bill will not proceed any further.
The Government is however going to conduct a review into under-age drinking.
ENDS
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Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.
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