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AMA Urges Senate to Pass Preventative Health Agency Bill
Dr Pesce said the AMA urges all Senators to support the Australian National Preventative Health Agency Bill, which has already been passed by the House of Representatives.
A growing number of Australians are at high risk of serious diseases and premature death due to excess weight, smoking and alcohol use, Dr Pesce said.
The proposed National Preventative Health Agency is a significant first step in a strategic national approach to reducing preventable chronic diseases.
The National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission and the Preventative Health Taskforce both recommended the creation of a preventive health agency.
It is expected that a major role of the agency will be to progress the recommendations of the Prevention Taskforce," Dr Pesce said.
The establishment of this Agency should not be stalled.
It is time to start acting on a national prevention strategy, Dr Pesce said.
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Perhaps Nicola Roxon should be doing as she must do under her portfolio to 'pay attention to the TREATY and NOTHING ELSE, abiding by law would be a good start Nicola instead of enforcing your religious beliefs on the rest of us, and this should it become law, would be yet another example of religious observance imposed.
I would also remind the minister that in a democracy the PEOPLE rule NOT government, they are there to do the will of the people NOT dictate to us and it is high time she and others including the press remembered that before a revolution gains momentum.