Greens Say Stop Selling Sugar to Kids, Capitalism Screams ‘Boo!’
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Tuesday, 2025 Jul 01|
11:15 AM
South Australia banned junk food ads on public transport.
Now the Greens want to take that idea national. And the reaction?
Picture a toddler after you take their Happy Meal — but the toddler is a billion-dollar industry with lawyers, lobbyists, and zero chill.
The proposal is simple: stop advertising fast food to kids in places they can’t escape.
No more ads on buses, trains, or government property.
Because apparently, letting six-year-olds get blasted with double cheeseburgers on the way to school isn’t helping the childhood obesity crisis.
Who knew? The response? Absolute meltdown.
Ad agencies say it’s “unrealistic.” Fast food giants say it’s “punishing families.” Meanwhile, every parent who’s tried to wrestle a toddler out of a drive-thru line is quietly cheering.
This isn't a new idea. The UK’s done it.
So have parts of Europe.
But in Australia, even suggesting Big Sugar take a seat is treated like high treason.
The junk food lobby’s already sharpening its talking points: freedom of choice, jobs, personal responsibility, blah blah blah.
Same script they used when cigarettes got shoved off billboards — and we all know how that ended.
(Spoiler: fewer deaths.) Childhood obesity in Australia is climbing. Fast.
One in four kids is overweight or obese.
Public health experts have been ringing this alarm for years.
Politicians nod, commission a report, and go quiet the minute a donor calls.
But here we are again, watching the Greens do the one thing that gets them roasted on Sky News: try.
Will it pass? Probably not.
The fast food industry has too many friends in high places and deep pockets full of “marketing grants.” But at least someone’s forcing the conversation.
At least someone’s saying out loud that maybe your local council shouldn’t be running ads for $2 frozen Coke right next to the school bus stop.
The irony? You can’t buy junk food in most schools.
But you can sell it to the kids on the way there. Because logic.
So now we wait. Health groups are on board. The AMA is on board.
Parents are tired. And politicians?
Most are doing that thing where they say “we support the intent” before voting it down behind closed doors.
But if this ban does grow legs?
Don’t be surprised if Ronald McDonald starts lobbying harder than Clive Palmer in an election year.
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