Health Coalition Aotearoa

Health experts urge inquiry into tobacco industry influence after heated tobacco tax cut extended

Health Coalition Aotearoa (HCA) is calling for a public inquiry and urging the Government to rethink its support for heated tobacco products (HTPs), following fresh revelations the Government extended a 50% tax cut on the products for two more years.

3,368 views

PM must act to end tobacco industry interference in his Government

Health Coalition Aotearoa is calling on Prime Minister Christopher Luxon to show leadership and strip NZ First of the tobacco and vaping portfolio, following damning revelations of collusion between NZ First and tobacco giant Philip Morris.

3,366 views

Experts urge fix as Government expands failing lunch scheme to primary schools

Underprivileged primary school children are about to suffer the same poor service as their intermediate and secondary school peers, with the Government’s announcement today that primary schools are transitioning to the cut price, revised Ka Ora Ka Ako - Healthy School Lunches programme.

409 views

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.

411 views

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.

587 views

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.

640 views

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.

609 views

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.

670 views

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.

797 views

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.

712 views