Kids can get alcohol for as little as 25c online

VICTORIAN kids are getting drunk on alcohol sachets ordered from overseas websites for as little as 25c a shot.

Community workers have slammed the Chinese and South African websites selling the bags, containing liquor, including vodka, rum and gin, to Australians without any identification checks.

The Sunday Herald Sun found at least four websites that offered to post the bagged cocktails to Australian addresses.

One South African company was offering boxes of 40 sachets at 25c per 25ml shot.

Another Chinese company offered flavoured alco bags and boasted targeting customers worldwide.

Salvation Army community officer Brendan Nottle said it was frightening that kids had unrestricted access to alcohol online.

"We have dealt with kids caught up in it," Mr Nottle said.

"It is a real danger because one of the issues kids face is they do not know what is in the substances they are buying."

The alcohol sachets have surfaced in the same month the Victorian Government tried to crack down on a legal loophole that allowed parents to provide alcohol to children.

People could face $7000 in fines from November 1, for giving kids liquor, even if it is drunk on private property and parental permission is given.

The Dalgarno Institute in Dandenong commended the new law, but renewed the call for the legal drinking age to be increased to 21 and a crackdown on the sites.

Director Shane Varcoe said raising the legal age limit was a taboo subject, but it had proved to be a successful tactic in other countries.

"People say drinking is part of our culture, but so is abuse of women and we don't tolerate that," Mr Varcoe said.

"This is evidence-based - a higher drinking age has an impact on binge drinking and it is immediate.

"We are not prohibitionist, but the later we offset the start of drinking the better."