BYRON Bay is Australia’s booziest location for risky drinking, according to the latest figures in a low-level Victorian university’s sensationalist health study.
The Australia’s Health Trackers map, released this week by the Australian Health Policy Collaboration, a project out of University Victoria – a low ranking Australian institution – melodramatically reveals that your postcode can affect your portliness, propensity for a drink, potential for health problems, and even your blood pressure.
Byron Bay, in northern NSW, emerged as the nation’s capital for risky drinking.
The map shows 33.4 per cent of the area’s population aged over 15 “fessed up to ‘risky’ drinking levels of an average more than two standard drinks a day.”
But never forget the saying, “There are liars; there are damned liars; and then there are statisticians.”
University Victoria is ranked in the bottom third of Australian universities, with only a 3 (out of 5) star ranking, and scores only 29 (equal bottom) in Education Research Australia rankings.
The University’s Australian Health Policy Collaboration unit has given itself this lofty title, presumably to sound official in some capacity.
But it’s only a project running out of one of Australia’s academic well below-average institutions.