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A sugary drinks tax: recovering the community costs of obesity

REPORT

by Stephen Duckett and Hal Swerissen


Australia should introduce a tax on sugary drinks to help tackle obesity and recoup some of the $5.3 billion a year the epidemic costs taxpayers.

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NEWS

21 November 2016

Australia can’t afford a gap between the taxed and the taxed nots

Repairing the budget is not for the faint-hearted. The Government’s recent omnibus bill — a mixed bag of savings measures worth $2 billion a year — took three budgets to pass the Parliament.

NEWS

22 November 2016

Paper presented at the 38th Australasian Transport Research Forum

This paper was written for the Australasian Transport Research Forum held in Melbourne 16th – 18th November. It won the J H Taplin Award for the best paper presented at the 38th Australasian Transport Research Forum.

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07 December 2016

Prime Minister’s Summer Reading List 2016

Grattan Institute will launch our annual Summer Reading List for the Prime Minister, in Melbourne at the State Library of Victoria on Wednesday 7 December.

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