Last week a report was released stating that one in five children in NSW are overweight or obese. In parliament last week, Victorian MP Russell Broadbent said that Australia should tax sugar to combat this increase.
It was immediately dismissed by acting PM Barnaby Joyce, and earned the ire of Senator David Leyonhjelm. But there was once a similar objection to taxes on tobacco.
So is a sugar tax simply a matter of time?
Laura Murphy Oates reports.
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