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  • ADA Updates
  • Competitions & Awards
ABC recently ran a series of stories about competition and potentially misleading behaviours about the major retailers are using home brand style products that do not look like home brand products.
  • Compliance
  • Export & Trade
APISWA have shared with us information about concerning regulatory developments for the alcohol industry in Thailand.
  • Competitions & Awards
Australian spirits manufacturers are celebrating a bumper night at the World Whiskies Awards in London, with global honours awarded to several of our distilleries and their personnel.
Australia’s spirits industry has the potential to follow the wine industry and become a $1 billion export powerhouse by 2035 under the right policy settings, according to new economic modelling released today.
  • Education & Development
The National Distilling Institute launched its first course in Certificate IV in Artisan Fermented Products (Distilling) yesterday.
  • ADA Updates
  • Education & Development
Aspiring Victorian distillers now have the opportunity to benefit from a new pilot training program focused on cutting edge distillation techniques and industry safety as part of the $20 million Distillery Door Program.
  • Competitions & Awards
The Queensland Distillers' Association Inc. in conjunction with WSET (Wine & Spirit Education Trust) are very pleased to announce the inaugural 2024 Royal Queensland Awards - Distilled Spirits and encourage ALL Australian Distillers to enter.
  • Advocacy & Excise
  • Business Operations
With an increase of mergers and acquisitions in the alcohol industry, the ATO (and specifically the Alcohol Stakeholder Group) are reminding businesses of the implications such activities may have on the eligibility of entities to apply the Excise remission scheme for manufacturers of alcoholic beverages (Remission Scheme).
  • Advocacy & Excise
  • Resources
Australia’s alcohol taxation system is illogical, incoherent, and discriminatory regarding spirits. The policy settings for the Australian spirits industry have only been tinkered with by successive governments. It is now time for the Government to act. We need your support.
  • Advocacy & Excise
Australian spirits manufacturers are this week confronting the grim reality of yet another increase to the world’s third highest spirits tax.
  • Business Operations
Callington Mill Distillery are seeking expressions of interest from those wishing to purchase premium quality, freshly decanted 30L casks. These casks have been maturing Callington Mill Distillery Single Malt Whisky.
  • Advocacy & Excise
Australian spirits manufacturers have renewed their calls for a freeze on spirits tax increases, as bi-annual indexation continues to fuel inflation and cost of living pressures.