The government is due to release a report next month, which sets out new guidelines on binge drinking.

The revised “National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) guidelines” will reportedly define binge drinking as consuming more than four standard drinks a day.

That equates to around three glasses of wine, or four middies of beer.

The government says it’s in response to new research on binge drinking.

However at least one health professional has slammed the proposal, saying it makes no sense at all. Paul Haber, the medical director of Drug Health Services Addiction Medicine at Sydney's Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, has told Fairfax media that the new guidelines would mean a couple sharing a bottle of wine over dinner are having a binge.

Do you think four standard drinks is a fair definition of binge drinking?

If you had three glasses of wine would you consider yourself on a binge?