Paula O'Brien

Alcohol marketing and social media: A challenge for public health control

Robin Room, Paula O'Brien

Journal article  |  2020  |  Drug and Alcohol Review

If One Thai Bottle Should Accidentally Fall: Health Information, Alcohol Labelling and International Investment Law

Andrew Mitchell, Paula O'Brien

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of World Investment and Trade

This article considers the issues that would arise in a dispute under an international investment agreement about two innovative, ..

Cancer Warning Labels on Alcohol Containers: A Consumer’s Right to Know, a Government’s Responsibility to Inform, and an Industry’s Power to Thwart

Tim Stockwell, Robert Solomon, Paula O’Brien, Kate Vallance, Erin Hobin

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs

Although the World Health Organization (WHO) declared alcohol a Class 1 carcinogen 30 years ago, few governments have communicated..

Warning Labels about Alcohol Consumption and Pregnancy: Moving from Industry Self-regulation to Law

Paula O'Brien

Journal article  |  2019  |  Journal of law and medicine

Alcohol consumption during pregnancy carries known risks to the foetus in the form of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). One..

Strong drink, weak rules: alcohol, public health and industry self-regulation in Australia

Paula Louise O'Brien

Thesis / Dissertation  |  2019

Alcohol is the favoured drug of Western nations. It brings pleasure, but it is also the source of untold harm to the drinker, thir..

Commentary on 'Communicating Mess ages About Drinking': Using the 'Big Legal Guns' to Block Alcohol Health Warning Labels

Paula O'Brien, Deborah Gleeson, Robin Room, Claire Wilkinson

Journal article  |  2018  |  Alcohol and Alcoholism

On the Bottle: Health Information, Alcohol Labelling and the WTO Technical Barriers to Trade Agreement

Paula O'Brien, Andrew Mitchell

Journal article  |  2018  |  QUT Law Review

Since 2010, the World Health Organization has advocated the use of health information labelling to inform consumers of the health ..

Law and Non-Communicable Diseases: International and Domestic Regulation of Food and Alcohol Special Issue - Editorial

Christine Parker, Tania Voon, Paula O'Brien

Journal article  |  2018  |  QUT Law Review

The articles in this special issue examine the relationship between international economic law and effective evidence-based regula..

Navigating Assisted Dying in Victoria: The Legalisation of Voluntary Assisted Dying in Victoria raises Ethical, Legal and Policy Challenges

Carolyn Johnston, Michelle Taylor-Sands, Chris Gyngell, Paula O'Brien

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2018

Victoria is the first state in Australia to legalise voluntary assisted dying. The Premier, Daniel Andrews, has described the law..

Could New Trade Rules Mean a Lack of Health Warnings on Alcohol?

Paula O'Brien, D Gleeson, Robin Room, C Wilkinson

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2017

As trade talks get underway around resurrecting the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), regional trade agreements are moving toward r..