Business
Dairy industry wants national school milk program revived to improve health of school-aged children – ABC News
Australia’s dairy industry wants to bring a milk program back into schools to help address a significant shortfall in the dairy intake of school-aged children.
It has been almost 50 years since Australia had a national school milk program, but some remember piercing those foil caps with paper straws as if it were yesterday.
Key points:
- Some in the dairy industry say the reintroduction of a school milk program would help children’s nutrition
- The free national school milk program ran from the 1950s to the 1970s
- One dairy farmer says the reintroduction would also help support the dairy industry
Now Australia’s dairy in…
Continue Reading
-
General19 hours agoDriver charged after fatal alleged hit-run crash at Hillier
-
Noosa News22 hours agoNorthern NSW growers welcome bumper grain harvest as south plagued by drought
-
General20 hours ago‘Fortune teller’ allegedly defrauds Sydney’s Vietnamese community out of $70 million
-
Business22 hours agoHow to turn $50,000 into $500,000 on the ASX