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Dear Food Forum Ministers, When You Dear Food Forum Ministers, When you meet on Friday, please listen to the community and put the health of our kids and families first. It’s time for a clear, visible pregnancy health warning on alcohol. For families, the most important thing in life is the health and wellbeing of our children. That’s why it matters to all of us that our families have access to clear information about the health and safety of the products they buy – especially products that may harm our children. Alcohol can cause brain damage in unborn babies when consumed during pregnancy – a condition known as Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. Alcohol can also lead to miscarriage, stillbirth, premature birth, low birth weight and developmental problems. Yet these products have never before been legally required to carry a health warning. Thankfully, that’s about to change. We are all in agreement that we need a mandatory label. Now our independent food authority has developed a clear and visible label that, with your support, will soon appear on all alcohol products sold in Australia and New Zealand. This will replace the ineffective and confusing label applied inconsistently by some alcohol producers to date. You will soon be meeting to decide whether to support this carefully designed label. As you do so, we ask that you put the health and wellbeing of Australian children first by supporting the evidence-based design in full. Watering down the label through changes to its colour, size or wording, would be risking the health and wellbeing of thousands of Australians for years to come. As a community, we want Aussie kids to have the best start in life. Help our community give them that by supporting this new label without further delay. Yours, www.visiblehealthwarning.org www.visiblehealthwarning.org Independent Order of Rechabites Telethon Kids Institute Freelance Consultant - Non-Communicable Queensland District No. 87 Inc. Disease (NCD) Policy Indiana NOFAS Wheelers Admin and Associates Alcohol and Drug Foundation The Country Women’s Association of Victoria Associacio Rauxa Inc. WCTU Drug-Free Lifestyles Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of Sth. The Violin Shop The CICADA Centre NSW Australia Inc EACH Aroha Ki Te Tamariki Trust - Mirror Services DrugArm The Family Place Inc Effective Change Psychology WCTU Southern Grampians Glenelg Primary Care FASD Tasmania Inc 88 Constellations Partnership Mindmatters Tamworth The IndividualiTree K A Nelson Consultancy Woman’s Christian Temperance Union Sth. Uniting Church in Australia Queensland FASlink Fetal Alcohol Disorders Society Australia inc Synod Menzies School of Health Research SOPHIA INC emPOWER WA Mundaring Local Drug Action Group Boab Network Queensland Consumers Association Northern Territory Faculty Board of the Bushmob Aboriginal Corporation Victorian Fetal Alcohol Service Australasian College for Emergency Medicine Aboriginal Drug & Alcohol Council Drug ARM Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Information Network Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association ‘concerned Australians’ emPOWER WA Shellharbour Kiama CDAT Australian College of Nursing Wollongong CDAT www.visiblehealthwarning.org Dame Quentin Bryce AD CVO Ms Jenelle McMillan Ms Sarah Jackson 25th Governor-General of Australia and Birth Mother of a child living with an FASD Senior Legal Policy Advisor, Cancer Council former Governor of Queensland Ms Lola Miers Victoria Adult who has FASD Dr Rosemary Stanton OAM Mrs Nicole Hewlett Australian nutritionist, lecturer and author Ms Neroli Endacott National Indigenous Program Manager, Carer - FASD Supporter Queensland University of Technology Ms June Oscar AO Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Mrs Cathy Clun Dr Fiona Shand Justice Commissioner & Close the Gap Carer of 5 kids with FASD Associate Professor, Black Dog Institute Campaign Co-Chair, Australian Human Rights Commission Mr William Spaul Mrs Sara Lauer Uncle of a FASD child whose life has been Winemaker Dr Neal Blewett severely affected by alcohol Former Member of Parliament; Chair of Mr Glenn Williams Review of Food Labelling Law and Policy, Mrs Jennifer Hogan General Manager, Team Australia, Baseball Labelling Logic (2011) Permanent carer of two boys with FASD Australia Ms Amanda Windley Ms Louise Gray Parent of child with FASD Dr Kerryn Bagley Chief Executive Officer, NOFASD Australia Chair of Victorian FASD Special Interest Ms Samantha Zimmermann Group, Victorian FASD Special Interest Group Dr Jeff McMullen AM Teacher and foster carer Journalist, author, TV presenter, NOFASD Prof Simone Pettigrew Australia Ambassador Ms Caterina Giorgi The George Institute for Global Health Chief Executive Officer, Foundation for Prof Elizabeth Elliott AM FAHMS FRSN Alcohol Research and Education (FARE) Ms Cheyenne Carter Distinguished Professor, Paediatrics and Marninwarnitkura Womens Resource Centre Child Health, Sydney University and Co- Dr Erin Lalor Director, FASD Australia NHMRC Centre of Chief Executive Officer, Alcohol and Drug Ms Jadnah Davies Research Excellence Foundation Program Manager, Marninwarnitkura Womens Resource Centre Prof Fiona Stanley AC FAA Dr John Bonning Epidemiologist; 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formerly Dr John Crozier FRACS FRCST (Hon) FACRS the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander DDU (Vasc) Dr Jessica Allen Social Justice Commissioner and Race Surgeon Community and Developmental Discrimination Commissioner; served as Paediatrician a senior Australian diplomat in India and Ms Jane Martin Vietnam Co-Chair, National Alliance for Action on Prof Robin Room Alcohol (NAAA) Professor, Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, Ms Kirstie Clements La Trobe University Features Director Harper's Bazaar Mr Sam Biondo Chief Executive Officer, Victorian Alcohol and Dr Emmanuel Kuntsche Prof Ian Webster Drug Association Director, Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, Emeritus Professor of Public Health and La Trobe University Community Medicine, University of New Ms Jill Rundle South Wales Chief Executive Officer, Western Australian Dr Anne-Marie Laslett Network of Alcohol and other Drug Agencies Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Alcohol Prof Carol Bower (WANADA) Policy Research, La Trobe University Senior Principal Research Fellow, Telethon Kids Institute Mr Michael White Prof Peter Miller Executive Officer, SANDAS Inc Professor of Violence Prevention and Dr Joe Tighe Addiction Studies,, Deakin University Close the Gap Campaign Mrs Alison Lai Chief Executive Officer, Alcohol, Tobacco and Dr Anne Heath Ms Nikki Mortier other Drugs Council of Tasmania Teaching fellow, University of Tasmania Carer of child with FASD Ms Nicola Coalter Dr Katherine Martin Chief Executive Officer, Amity Community Surgeon Services www.visiblehealthwarning.org Dr Cassandra Wright Mr Adam Knobel Ms Alyson Wright Research Fellow, Centre for Alcohol Policy Foundation for Alcohol Research and Research Associate, Australian National Research, La Trobe University Education (FARE) University Gemma Crawford Ms Helen Robinson Dr Emily Deans Researcher, Collaboration for Evidence, Ordained Minister, Uniting Church in Research & Design Coordinator Research & Impact in Public Health, Curtin Australia Ms Leanne Fuelling Prof Paul Haber Mr David Templeman Senior Community Development Officer, Professor of Medicine, University of Sydney President, Public Health Association of , Alcohol and Drug Foundation Drug Australia Foundation Ms Summer May Finlay Lecturer, University of Wollongong Dr Mahiban Thomas Ms Denni Scott Davis Chair, NT Committee, Royal Australasian ABCB.org Mr Bill Campbell, OAM, JP College of Surgeons Founder and Chairman, William Campbell Dr Saul Newman Foundation Ms Julia Stafford Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Alcohol Program Manager, Cancer Council Australian National University Ms Beth Blackwood WA Chief Executive Officer, Association of Heads Dr Meg Perkins of Independent Schools of Australia Ms Melissa Ledger First Stop FASD Consultancy Cancer Prevention and Research Director, Mrs Margaret Hewitt OAM Cancer Council WA Mrs Shenae Hawkins Long term remote health nurse, NT and SA Regional Education Officer, Cancer Council Dr Jenny Goodare WA Mr David Hewitt OAM Foundation for Alcohol Research and Long-term remote Aboriginal community Education (FARE) Dr Alexandra Jones worker Research Fellow (Food Policy and Law), The Mrs Kelly Ward George Institute for Global Health Mr James Farrell OAM Alcohol and Drug
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