The AHA hits out at lack of events for Perth in light of the announcement to cancel the Red Bull Air Race.
A labour shortage is being experienced in the hospitality industry, with chefs and other kitchen workers being poached by mining and resources catering companies.
Western Australian health researchers say they have uncovered evidence of the industry's strategies to distract public debate and to avoid potentially damaging policies such as tax hikes.
The Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Hotels Association in Western Australia, Bradley Woods, says the research is flawed. Mr Woods says the papers are 15 years old, and do not relate to the alcohol industry in Australia. He says the papers refer to the Millers brewing company in the United States of America.
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Formidable lobbyists in the form of the Australian Hotels Association are manning the barricades in the fight over Halls Creek. The sight of a calm, collected Bradley Woods, the AHA's West Australian secretary, debating Aboriginal hospital worker Robyn Long on ABC's Lateline on Monday night should have created anxiety among chiefs-ofstaff within the Liberal-Nationals alliance. Woods is a powerful stakeholder in all things liquor in Western Australia, and media savvy. Click here to read more
The Federal Government has called for the WA Government to bring in more alcohol restrictions in the Kimberley region, as the state's director of liquor licensing considers severe limits in Halls Creek. But in some areas the Federal Government's welfare bonus payments are being blamed for increased alcohol consumption, and attendant social problems.
AHA(WA) CEO Bradley Woods suggests that the Commonwealth's economic stimulus payment, which deliver large amounts of money indiscriminatly, could be hindering the overall strategy to reduce alcohol related harm.
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