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Reset Australia is demanding greater data protections for teenagers after it uncovered a Facebook loophole that allows teenagers to be profiled and targeted with advertising based on a range of age inappropriate interests, such as alcohol, smoking, gambling, and extreme weight loss.

Advertising in Australia is increasingly moving online, but despite the Internet leading the way for shoppers looking for purchases, other media — including good old fashioned catalogues — are still a favoured medium for many Aussies shopping for some categories of products.

Melbourne-based startup Liquorun, described as one of Australia’s fastest growing delivery services, has announced an expansion that will see it deliver to all of Inner Melbourne, and will now include boutique fast food options.

The not-for-profit online Hello Sunday Morning organisation says Australia’s most dangerous drinkers are turning online in droves for help ditching their heavy drinking habits, eschewing trained sober coaches for communities of likeminded Aussies giving abstinence a go.

A plucky group of Aussie winemakers have developed a free new app which allows users to keep track of exactly how much alcohol they're drinking.

One of the weirdest Google stories of the year is it success in garrotting and guillotining Groggle's business name, one which somewhat sounds like Google while playing on the very well-known term 'grog', a synonym for alcohol.

A U.S. study published in July 2010 shows that the risk of stroke increases by over double in the hour after taking a drink of alcohol, even though light to moderate drinking has been shown, overall, to decrease the risk.

An Australian study has found that the majority of pregnant women in Australia drink alcohol while pregnant. And, these pregnant women are also confused by changing government recommendations.

According to Italian research, the consumption of alcohol can significantly reduce the risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, and other types of arthritic conditions.

The Victorian Government is using a commercial SMS service in its campaign to reduce alcohol-related violence.

Dangerous, high-risk repeat drink drivers in the Australian state of Queensland will be forced to have approx $2000 self-funded interlock devices attached to their cars by the end of the year, with those blowing low or no alcohol content able to drive, and those with high alcohol readers interlocked out!

According to a Kaiser Permanente study performed in the United States, men and women who are frequent and heavy drinkers of alcohol have much worse health-care related habits and practices when compared to people who are light and moderate drinkers. However, there is good news for moderate drinkers.