According to the National Alcohol Strategy 2006-2009: Towards safer drinking
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alcohol is important to Australian employment, retail activity, export
income and taxation revenue. Alcohol is also a drug traditionally and culturally
significant to the ways in which many Australians celebrate, relax and socialise. The
2007 National Drug Strategy Household Survey found that 83% of people aged 14
years or more drank alcohol in 2007.