Victorian Premier John Brumby takes action - What’s going on NSW?
March 4th, 2008 by Richard & Joey Marc
Last night we arrived at Melbourne airport and grabbed the Sun Herald, as we opened the paper it was great to find in the first section a page talking about healthy eating special and then the last 3 pages of the paper focusing on health and fitness. Then today we opened the Herald Sun to find an offical magazine lift out with the Premier’s active families challenge. Premier John Brumby and Sports Minister James Melino have taken action in Victoria, encouraging families to get fit and healthy through their active families challenge. It involves family members to participate in 30 minutes of physical activity for at least 30 days between March 9 - April 20. The Premier’s Active Families Challenge is part of the Victorian Governments “Go for your life” initiative which encourages Victorians to improve their physical health and wellbeing. Within the lift out it contained great information about the rules involved in the challenge along with sports, activity options families can implement and a diary to fill in daily!
After reading the handout and what Premier John Brumby and Sports Minister James Melino is promoting for families - a lifestyle which includes eating well and being active, we couldn’t help but think what is the rest of the states of Australia doing? For example why is the tourism minister in NSW Matt Brown, making the pestor power for parents even more difficult, by offering free tickets to tourist destinations in happy meals at McDonalds? The NSW Government should take a look at the active families initiative that the Victorian Government has established and promote that to NSW families instead of supporting such as scheme that encourages families to be more inclined to consume fast food. Parents are already struggling with the battles of keeping kids away from fast food temptations available in our society today and now when they are offering free tourist attraction vouchers it doesn’t make it any easier.
Yours in health and wellness,
Richard & Joey Marc
The Wellness Duo
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