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Elephant in the room

10 September 2016

9:00 AM

10 September 2016

9:00 AM

The tsunami that has been approaching Australia has finally come ashore and it now wobbles and stumbles through our schools, shopping malls and suburbs. This tsunami is obesity and it now poses a great threat to Australian society. We are told that 60 per cent of Australians are obese and Townsville, where I live, has the nation’s largest increase in obesity rates.

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