Fair drinkum
The image of Australians as beer swillers is not entirely accurate - they also like wine and spirits, Reuter reports from Melbourne. The average Australian family - grandfather, mother, father and two teenagers - downs 936 cans of beer, 61 bottles of wine and 20 bottles of spirits each year, the Australian Drug Foundation said.
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