Dairy industry wants national school milk program revived to improve health of school-aged children – ABC News

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…

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