Nanny Staters Ban Queensland Government Junk Food Ads
- molly510
- Apr 24, 2019
- 1 min read
Easter is freshly behind us. And children’s Easter baskets around Australia are brimming with chocolates and other sweet treats. As they should be.
But don’t expect to find those lollies advertised by Queensland’s nanny state government.
The Queensland government wants people to lose weight and doesn’t want them looking at pictures of sweets as they travel to work or school.
In what the Liberal opposition says is nothing more than a distraction from its poor policies, the state government is banning junk food advertising on government-owned sites, billboards, train stations and transport.
The Liberal National Party has already called the state out on the ridiculousness of the ban, saying it just draws attention away from an emergency department crisis, where beds have been in scary short supply in recent weeks.
‘We want the Palaszczuk government to get its priorities right,’ Liberal deputy leader Tim Mander said, adding they ‘should be focusing on hospital beds, not billboards’.
But that would mean admitting failure. And when is a government ever willing to do that?
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