The Inside of Australia Medical Association (AMA)
Formerly known as the British Medical Association (BMA) has successfully merged into Australia Medical Association (AMA) in 1962. The association discusses medical developments and unusual cases. Fifty-six years later, AMA is one of the most influential membership organisation to help represent registered medical practitioners and medicals students all over Australia. Its main purpose is to support the medical profession by promoting and protecting medical practitioners, students, doctors, patients and communities who are in needs of health care. The AMA is working with the governments to improve the quality of provisions of world-class medical care to all Australians by conducting research
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The ‘Obesity Policy Coalition’ is to improve and address obesity in Australia, especially among the children (Obesity Policy Coalition, 2018). Advertising and marketing unhealthy high sugar product can influence their food choices and affect their diets, particularly advertising on children’s product. The Obesity Policy Coalition enforce to reduce these types of harmful advertising that are attractive to children’s. Food Labelling Laws and Policy, when it comes to labelling the products it must comply with the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (CCA). This means the information on the product can’t be misleading, such as the ingredients or daily intake. However, this does not stop Australian from consuming high sugar beverages as Australian has been identified with excess sugar consumptions. This is crucial for the government to act on reducing sugar consumption by forcing sugar tax in Australia mainly for the high-sugar beverages such as soft drinks. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, one in two Australian are eating more than the recommended daily intake of sugar. The largest consumers are teenager between 14-18 consuming just about 38 teaspoons of sugar each day (Jones, …show more content…
However, we propose to enforce sugar tax to reduce the rate of overweight and obese people in Australia. Sugar tax has been enforced in other countries such as Hungary, France and Mexico. These countries have shown that sugar tax can be successfully reduce the consumption of sugar in the country. For example, Hungary demand of sugary beverages reduced by 7.5% within a year, followed by France reduced by 3.4% and Mexico being the most successful with the implementation of sugar tax to a reduction by 12% over 12 months (Departement of Health, 2017). This just shows how effective sugar tax in helping the reduction of overweight and obesity growth in Australia. Sugar-Sweetens Beverages (SSBs) tax should collect around 40 cents per 100 grams of sugar contains in the products. By implementing this the government could generate $500 million revenue to cover the cost of obesity prevention programs and interventions, healthcare or to reduce the Government budget deficit (Stephen Duckett, Hal Swerissen,