Michael Livingston and Claire Wilkinson, “Per-capita Alcohol Consumption and All-cause Male Mortality in Australia, 1911-2006,” Alcohol and Alcoholism 48, no. 2 (2013): 196–201. Concludes that Australia belongs “in the group of countries for which a positive association between per-capita alcohol consumption and total mortality can be demonstrated”: “increases in consumption at the population level in Australia are associated with declines in population health”; “per-capita alcohol consumption in Australia is a significant contributor to rates of male mortality, particularly among young adults, suggesting an interaction between per-capita consumption and risky episodic drinking.”
Australian pub (book review)
Robin Room, review of Dianne Kirkby, Tanja Luckins and Chris McConville, The Australian Pub (2010), in Social History of Alcohol and Drugs 26/1 (Winter 2012): 102-103.
Wine in colonial New South Wales (article)
Julie McIntyre, “Adam Smith and Faith in the Transformative Qualities of Wine in Colonial New South Wales,” Australian Historical Studies 42/2 (June 2011): 194-211.
Tea in Australia, 1658-1799 (article)
Susie Khamis, “A Taste For Tea: How Tea Travelled to (and through) Australian Culture,” Journal of the History of Culture in Australia 24 (January 2006): 57-79. [Australian Cultural History appears to have ceased publication in 2010]
Instant coffee in Australia (article)
Susie Khamis, “‘It Only Takes a Jiffy to Make,'” Food, Culture & Society 12/2 (Summer 2009): 217-233. Instant coffee in tea-drinking Australia.
Prehistory of alcohol deregulation in Australia (article)
Robin Room, “The Long Reaction against the Wowser: The Prehistory of Alcohol Deregulation in Australia,” Health Sociology Review 19/2 (June 2010): 151-163.
