November 8 2016 Active Healthy Kids Australia & The Physical Activity Report Card
Editors Note: The 2016 AHKA Report Card on Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Young People has been released and it's not good news for...
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October 20 2016 Walktober by Wendy Gillett CEO of Bluearth
"Wherever you walk there can be joy and there can be risks. And the risks can be quite unexpected!". Luckily for me I’ve just had the joy of mornin...
October 12 2016 Melbourne vs Northern Territory Sun
Background Info Up here in the NT, UV levels are very high to extreme all year round and sun protection is required every single day. Back in Melbour...
October 3 2016 October is Walk to School Month
October is Walk to School Month, and as a parent I love Walk to School Month. Last year was the first year that my daughter (7 years old at the time, ...
September 22 2016 Welcome to the team – Luke Daley
I'm excited to start my journey with the Parents' Voice and use my experience as a Public Health Nutritionist and day to day life as Dad to represent ...
July 1 2016 Federal Election 2016
This election campaign has been a long one, and here at Parents’ Voice HQ we know that the few policy announcements on preventive health have become...
June 28 2016 Farewell and Hello!
If I was to ask you how many people work at Parents' Voice HQ, what would you guess? Three? Six? Ten? Well the real number is two. Two people to wo...
June 23 2016 I stopped buying juice and… nothing happened!
Love this blog from Jules Smith on making one small but very important change...
May 11 2016 Parent Power Prevails in the school canteen. A parent tells us how the P&C introduced a regular Healthy Choices Canteen
My kids go to a small, government school in Sydney. It has a welcoming and energetic P and C, a dynamic principal and a diverse student popu...
March 7 2016 Who’s setting community standards for junk food marketing to kids?
"Whilst having a morning coffee and before heading off to work I was watching what my child was watching. I was unsurprised by all the toy advertising...