Media companies junk Government’s fast food advertising study: ‘True causes of obesity have much more to do with wealth, education, parents’

A report commissioned by the Albanese Government aimed at highlighting the dangers of fast food advertising on the health of Australian children has been slammed as a ‘quick fix’ by the media companies carrying this messaging.The Healthy Kids Advertising Bill 2023 was tabled in federal parliament last June by independent MP Dr. Sophie Scamps. A feasibility study funded by the Albanese Government suggested a number of measures that would severely restrict fast food, such as banning pr