Australia exports about 95% of its sugar and Queensland produces 95% of the sugar produced in the country. The Queensland Sugar Ltd has monopoly rights over procurement of raw sugar from growers for export, a measure which is contrary to the WTO provisions.

Although the applied tariffs on raw and refined sugar in

Australia have been scaled down to zero since 1997, domestic prices of refined sugar are regulated through a complicated internal mechanism of distribution thereby discouraging imports.

Over the past few years, Australia has introduced support regimes like emergency income support, interest rate subsidy and outright grants. About 444 million Australian dollar assistance was approved by the federal and state governments on April 28, 2004 under Sugar Reform Bill.

The problem for us today is that we respond to instinctive taste drives for sugar (and fat) and breed foods high in these energy sources. We then pour nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium onto farmland followed by irrigation and produce nutritionally dilute foods with rising carbon footprints.

Simple dietary changes such as consuming nutritionally dense foods (see http://www.kakadujuice.com/superfoods) such as minimally bred wild and near wild foods (acai, goji, Kakadu plums etc) from various countries can have a huge impact on health status.

Now wouldn’t this set the cat amongst the pigeons if we taxed our so-called fresh food?

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“Johns comments….wow…but he is right about Violence not a good place to start or basis of NMH Policy

What he and others seem to forget is that the emphasis has always been on At Risk men….what about the general community of men who ‘suffer’ from lack of Understanding of their health/lack of skills to deal with issues eg…parenting/relationships when they go bad/dismissal/change of who they are/being ‘older’ and more vulnerable/status and the simple but impacting…general health issues that take men so earlier based on ignorance or lack of knowledge of their bodies/or genetic history

John…seems to forget that the average bloke is just as at risk from….early mortality as the man at risk of suicide and CVD/Cancers/etc etc…far out way the cause for early mortality of men

As for our Indigenous men….or for that any matter remote males (& women)….early mortality is imminent as emergency medical intervention is not available as in urban areas. When we separate the Indigenous urban populations we find that Indigenous life expectancy is so far better when they are urbanized and have the access to health services….

It’s funny that no one gets real upset about ‘white people’ who have up to a 7 yr less life expectancy if they live in rural Aust.

Interesting times ahead for MH and the Policy….hope it simply provides men with better access to services and more male friendly as he (John) is very right about health services taking some responsibility in the way the access men and provide access for men…this is probably the main issue..access and male friendly services.

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