This Melbourne Cup, alcohol and sport collide. Forget the horses. It's domestic violence we should be watching for

By Kirsty Forsdike, Senior Lecturer, La Trobe Business School and Senior Researcher in Centre for Sport & Social Impact, La Trobe University
Anne-Marie Laslett, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University
Leesa Hooker, Research Director, Rural Judith Lumley Centre, La Trobe Rural Health School, La Trobe University

For years, we’ve taken major sporting events, a public holiday, added alcohol and gambling, then watched domestic violence rates rise. It’s time we did something different.

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