Call for overhaul of NZ liquor laws after student house party death

Price of alcohol at supermarkets should be increased, Otago professor says

Problem drinking at New Zealand’s universities can only be tackled by changes to laws governing sale and supply of alcohol, a public health academic has said.

Jennie Connor, chair of preventive and social medicine at the University of Otago’s school of medicine in Dunedin, told Radio NZ that excessive drinking at student flat parties was driven by cheap alcohol prices at retail outlets such as supermarkets.