Tips for keeping your children safe
- Don’t purchase liquor for your underage children to take to Schoolies Week.
- If your child is over 18, please encourage them to avoid high-alcohol-content premixed drinks.
- Talk to other parents of children sharing accommodation to make sure you know how much alcohol in total is going to be available.
- Discuss responsible behaviour with your children.
- Providing alcohol in circumstances where there is no responsible supervision of consumption is not only highly risky, it is against the law with a maximum penalty of $8000.
- Do not give in to pressure to supply alcohol to your son or daughter for Schoolies celebrations.
For more information on Schoolies a fact sheet (PDF 120 K) is available.
Parents can obtain additional information and tips from the website of the Federal Government’s Department of Health and Ageing.
Last reviewed 28 October 2010