Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Health and Manager of Opposition Business in the House) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Can the minister confirm that he has consistently denied government has a role in addressing obesity, saying on the ABC Four Corners program ‘the answer is in the hands of those individuals’? Given the minister’s dismissive attitude and his failure to put any money into addressing childhood obesity in the last budget, isn’t announcing $3.4 million in research funds today—the figure in his press release—an absurdly token effort to address a national health crisis that cost $21 billion last year?

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