Media coverage

  Examples of OPC media coverage

2012

• Weight programs spruik new path to health Sunday Age, 30 December 2012
• Weight loss trade trims expectations Sun Herald, 30 December 2012
• The influence of Freddo Canberra Times, 27 December 2012
• Children lured to unhealthy food The Age, 26 December 2012
• Cartoon face of fatty foods draws call for Federal ban Sydney Morning Herald, 26 December 2012
• Cartoons draw calls for a ban Canberra Times, 26 December 2012
• Meddling to do a fat lot of good The Australian, 17 December 2012
• Weight Watchers pitches for government subsidies The Saturday Age, 1 December 2012
• Ad code change deemed ineffectual Food & Drink Business, 1 December 2012
• Australians getting bigger ... and bigger Central Western Daily, 31 October 2012
• People failing to win battle of bulge Canberra Times, 30 October 2012
• It's good and bad news from the fat front The Australian, 30 October 2012
• Nation's number of obese growing The Age, 30 October 2012
• Nation's number of obese growing Sydney Morning Herald, 29 October 2012
• Should the government restrict super-sizing junk food? Sunday Herald Sun, 30 September 2012
• Vegies on the nose Herald Sun, 27 September 2012
• Labelling a healthy future Northern Star Lismore, 14 August 2012
• Study supports push for traffic light food labels Medical Journal of Australia, 13 August 2012
• Unhealthy food tax gets the nod from Australians Medical Observer, 10 August 2012
• Australians Support ‘Traffic Light' Food Labels The Epoch Times, 6 August 2012
• Aussies support junk food crackdown: study AAP Newswire, 3 August 2012
• Tax up on drink, smokes Adelaide Advertiser, 28 July 2012
• Act now to stop toll on health Courier Mail, 23 July 2012 
• Fat activists challenge medical 'panic' over obesity Medical Observer, 20 July 2012
• Food giants 'con' kids Herald Sun, 10 July 2012
• Health advocates hit back at opposition to labelling plans Sydney Morning Herald, 10 July 2012
• In the real world weight loss is tough Herald Sun, 10 July 2012
• Children being 'conned' by misleading food packaging Geelong Advertiser, 10 July 2012
• Children tricked: junk food disguised to appear healthy Adelaide Advertiser, 10 July 2012
• Voluntary regulation Food Magazine, 1 July 2012
• Junk-food giants bad sports in sponsorship Herald Sun, 29 June 2012
• Aussies back Disney's junk food ad boycott Medical Observer, 22 June 2012
• Maccas map in the gun Herald Sun, 9 June 2012
• Junkfood generation Wellbeing, 1 June 2012
• Fast food giant's move into junior sport 'unethical' Geelong Advertiser, 18 May 2012
• Fat tax to fight obesity crisis Adelaide Advertiser, 17 May 2012
• Aussies support fat tax Herald Sun, 17 May 2012
• Fast food fat tax Herald Sun, 15 May 2012
• Fast way to make kids fat Herald Sun, 15 May 2012
• Super-sized footy plan Herald Sun, 14 May 2012
• Sex, kids and ads: corporate paedophilia? Sunday Examiner, 22 April 2012
• Take note of the joules to save the kilos Sunday Herald Sun, 22 April 2012
• Quarter of our teens too fat Geelong Advertiser, 24 February 2012
• Do weight loss shows do more harm than good? Sunday Herald Sun, 19 February 2012
• Streets stung by ad board The Age, 17 February 2012
• Industry failing on junk-food ads: report AAP Newswire 17 February 2012
• War over sweet nothings The Australian, 4 February 2012
• Disgust at claims sugar as dangerous as alcohol Weekend Australian, 2 February 2012
• TV shows spark weight warning Adelaide Advertiser, 2 February 2012
• Worth the weight Herald Sun, 1 February 2012
• Shielding kids from junk food ads Food and Drink Business, 1 February 2012
• Tech up, trim down Weight Watchers Magazine, 1 February 2012
• Gastric surgery slashes deadly heart attacks The Australian, 5 January 2012

2011

• Fat chance of breaking junk food grip Sydney Morning Herald, 31 December 2011
• Food labelling Sunday Examiner, 18 December 2011
• Ads free to peddle junk Sun Herald, 11 December 2011
• Nostalgia rules in TV cookie commercial Sunday Age 11 December 2011
• Local fare Western Advocate, 10 December 2011
• Advertising dolled up as nostalgia takes the biscuit Sydney Morning Herald, 10 December 2011
• TV junk food ad concern Herald Sun, 8 December 2011
• Health ministers should turn on the lights Geelong Advertiser 8 December 2011
• Voluntary junk food ad restrictions Burnie Advocate 8 December 2011
• Triple threat of too much screen time Sun Herald, 4 December 2011
• Red light on food labels Herald Sun, 1 December 2011
• Time for the Greens to back off Launceston Examiner, 24 November 2011
• Pester power? The Smarties website The Australian, 21 November 2011
• Push on food ads Daily Telegraph, 21 November 2011
• Greens seek ban on junk food ads The Australian, 21 November 2011
• Bill to ban junk food ads Sun Herald, 20 November 2011
• Disunited nations: efforts to curb the power of junk food producers are being stymied in high places Sunday Age, 20 November 2011
• Calls to beef up laws on junk food TV ads Adelaide Advertiser, 17 November 2011
• Health officials to rethink fast food donations Sun Herald, 13 November 2011
• Is food traffic light labelling the right choice? Sunday Herald Sun, 13 November 2011
• Space race for health Sunday Herald Sun, 23 October 2011
• Food rating app popular with public Medical Observer, 21 October 2011
• A fat tax? Why the hip pocket might be the key to fixing Australia's obesity crisis Sun Herald, 16 October 2011
• Fat tax not the whole answer Hamilton Spectator, 13 October 2011
• App of the week: Traffic light food tracker Australian Doctor, 7 October 2011
• Denmark's fat tax: a sweetener for taxing soft drinks? Crikey.com.au, 6 October 2011
• Empty calories fuel fat levy Herald Sun, 5 October 2011
• Should less healthy foods be taxed more? Daily Advertiser, 5 October 2011
• Flab tax may be a fat lot of good Herald Sun, 3 October 2011
• Kids in the kitchen Sydney Morning Herald, 1 October 2011 
• Yahoo 7! launches food app Food Magazine, 28 September 2011 
• Schools go healthy North Shore Times, 28 September 2011
• Push/pull factors at the supermarket The Week, 23 September 2011
• High risk comes with high consumption West Australian, 31 August 2011
• Bat taken to junk food Caulfield Glen Eira Leader, 9 August 2011
• The right formula Post Script, 1 August 2011
• Obesity campaigns 'waste of cash' The Age, 1 August 2011
• Fast-food labelling law trims intake: count on kilojoules Herald Sun, 29 July 2011
• Sugar and spice and all things not nice Australian Financial Review, 17 June 2011
• Happy Meal site sparks call for ad crackdown The Age, 5 June 2011
• Launch of OPC food advertising legislation blueprint, 9 May 2011:
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• He's no Norm, but a belly good bloke Herald Sun, 14 March 2011
• 'Traffic light' nutrition guide has manufacturers seeing red Sunday Age, 16 March 2011
• Just Chew It: ban sports making millions from junk food, say experts Crikey, 11 March 2011
• Get set for our messiest food fight yet The Age, 27 February 2011
• Doctors want to put the fear of fat into you Sunday Age, 2 January 2011
• Children's junk food ads 'made for adults' Sydney Morning Herald, 1 November 2010
• We're running to fat Herald Sun, 25 September 2010
• Labelling 'lite': review aims to sort the healthy wheat from misleading chaff Sunday Age, 4 April 2010
• Nestle cuts sugar in snacks to keep child ads The Age, 21 July 2009
• Slim chance of action Sunday Age, 26 July 2010
• Kids techno tastebuds in junk food fight The Australian, 20 July 2009
• Yes, we're fat, but what do we do about it? Sunday Age, 18 May 2008
• Children taking the bait in junk food marketing Canberra Times, 14 September 2007
• The plan to make all our kids fat, Daily Telegraph 14 September 2007
• Cereals targeted in war on weight The Australian, 10 September 2007
• Tax sugary cereal, health lobby urges The Age, 10 September 2007