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Health Coalition Aotearoa

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Joined March 2023
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Health 30 Apr 2025
Protecting our youngest citizens: put people before profit in infant formula rules

Health Coalition Aotearoa is deeply concerned by reports of industry lobbying that appears to have influenced Government decisions to weaken infant formula labelling standards in Aotearoa New Zealand.

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School 23 Oct 2024
Lunches contract goes to companies with poor track record on food quality and service

Health Coalition Aotearoa (HCA) has significant concerns about the quality, nutritional standards and quality controls for the new school lunches programme.

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Politics 2 Oct 2024
Luxon must stand Costello down and reverse tobacco tax cut decision

The Prime Minister must take action on his Government’s disastrous tobacco control policy after the latest in a long series of pro-tobacco industry moves by Associate Minister of Health Casey Costello that are likely to cause more harm - at the tax-payer’s expense.

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Health 4 Dec 2023
Government's defence of Smokefree repeal - weak, deceptive and embarrassing

The Government’s strategy to justify its roll-back of New Zealand’s world-leading Smokefree law amounts to a campaign of misinformation, Health Coalition Aotearoa co-chair Professor Boyd Swinburn says.

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Health 19 May 2023
Budget 2023: some positives health, but no commitment to addressing the structural drivers of health

Health Coalition Aotearoa Co-Chair Dr. Lisa Te Morenga says that while there were some positives for health in the Budget, it didn't address the cost-of-living crisis or our major health inequities.

New Zealand Budget 2023

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Alcohol 10 May 2023
Health Coalition Aotearoa calls for a full review of alcohol law to protect communities

Health Coalition Aotearoa (HCA) is calling on Government to commit to a full review of alcohol law to ensure communities are protected from ongoing corporate interference in alcohol policy making.

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Health 22 Mar 2023
Regulation of lobbyists must put public health before commercial interests

With RNZ revelations today of harmful industries lobbying policymakers and Ministers via commercial firms, health groups are launching a series of urgent recommendations to regulate lobbying in Aotearoa.

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