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Speaker 1: You might have heard Robert Simms from the Greens on

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Speaker 1: five Douba Breakfast about ninety minutes ago on a different topic.

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Speaker 1: He's back, this time on fast food restaurants opening and

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Speaker 1: being built near schools. What do you think about that?

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Speaker 1: Should fast food restaurants Macas and Hungry Jackson, KFC and

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Speaker 1: all the others be near a school or should they

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Speaker 1: be at least half a kilometer away? Well, Robert Sims

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Speaker 1: the Greens says, under new legislation he's introducing to Parliament

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Speaker 1: Private Members Bill, new fast food restaurants won't be allowed

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Speaker 1: within four hundred meters of a school.

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Speaker 2: Robert Sims, good morning, Good morning, Matthew. Good to be back.

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Speaker 1: Obviously this is to tackle obesity, but do you think

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Speaker 1: it'll make any difference ultimately?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we do have a real problem with obesity here

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Speaker 2: in Australia at the moment. In fact, one in four

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Speaker 2: children are overweight or obese, so it's clear we have

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Speaker 2: to do something about it. And over in London back

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Speaker 2: in twenty seventeen they implemented this band and they did

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Speaker 2: so because they've done some research that showed that actually,

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Speaker 2: for a lot of children, the proximity of fast food

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Speaker 2: restaurants is a determining factor. So you know, if you've

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Speaker 2: got a fast food restaurant that's just a few minutes

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Speaker 2: walk away from school and kids walk by on their

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Speaker 2: way to and from school, and for those students that

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Speaker 2: are older and are able to leave the school grounds

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Speaker 2: during their lunch break, they've got the opportunity to pop

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Speaker 2: in there. If they see that every day, they're much

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Speaker 2: more likely to just drop in and get incidental junk food.

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Speaker 2: And we know that that's not good for long term health,

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Speaker 2: and junk food contributes to a range of health conditions,

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Speaker 2: but also it's not good for learning and concentration in

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Speaker 2: the classroom either. So this is really about trying to

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Speaker 2: encourage healthy food choices.

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Speaker 1: Okay, and the fact I know there have been a

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Speaker 1: couple of battles, and they've been one I can think

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Speaker 1: of that's been one. There was a macas planned across

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Speaker 1: the road from Woodville Primary on Port Road some ten

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Speaker 1: years ago, and in the end maccas will to move

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Speaker 1: it a little bit down the road. It's not too

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Speaker 1: far away from the original side, but probably I don't

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Speaker 1: know if it's within four hundred meters it maybe it is.

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Speaker 1: It might just be inside that, but all the same,

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Speaker 1: I reckon kids, if it's on their way home, we'll

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Speaker 1: probably stop off after school, no matter how far away

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Speaker 1: it is.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, that's not what the research demonstrated over in

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Speaker 2: London when they looked at this. What their research showed

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Speaker 2: that actually that proximity was a deciding factor. And that's

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Speaker 2: why we've chosen this four hundred meters and that was

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Speaker 2: the element that they identified when they were setting that

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Speaker 2: setting that limit.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so now advertising as well, you want to ban

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Speaker 1: on that within a close proximity to schools.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I've already got a bill before Parliament that went

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Speaker 2: through the Upper House some time ago now that actually

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Speaker 2: bans junk food advertising within five hundred meters of schools

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Speaker 2: on public infrastructure as well, so that includes things like

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Speaker 2: bus stop, even the Adelaide oval. And I've been pushing

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Speaker 2: for the government to take action on that. They said

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Speaker 2: they were going to set up a task force to

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Speaker 2: look into some of those issues around junk food and schools.

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Speaker 2: We yet to see any recommendations come out of that,

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Speaker 2: but I'll keep on pushing. But I think fundamentally we've

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Speaker 2: got to look at the potential harm that's done to

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Speaker 2: young people by their exposure to this kind of food,

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Speaker 2: And if we can make it less frequent in terms

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Speaker 2: of young people's consumption of fast food, then that's going

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Speaker 2: to have really positive outcomes in terms of learning in school,

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Speaker 2: but also long term positive outcomes because it encourages people

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Speaker 2: to make it healthier choices.

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Speaker 1: Is it just the Big three, the KFC Hungry Jacks

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Speaker 1: machas that you're concerned about. What about pizza shops and restaurants?

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Speaker 1: What about subway type restaurants, sandwich bars, that sort of thing.

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Speaker 2: So in our bill, and we've requested that there be

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Speaker 2: a particular definition of fast food that's adopted and that

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Speaker 2: relates to food. It has a really high concentration of

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Speaker 2: bats and salts. So it might not necessarily just be

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Speaker 2: your McDonald's, your Hungry Jacks at KFC. It could also

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Speaker 2: be some of those takeaway fast food type joints as

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Speaker 2: well that fall into that criteria. There are actually quite

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Speaker 2: a lot of schools where there's fast food retailers literally

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Speaker 2: right next door. Chris's Beach Highs is one. And what

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Speaker 2: our bill would do is stop any new fast food

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Speaker 2: developments from popping up. And this is an issue up

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Speaker 2: at strap Album at the moment, and I know parents

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Speaker 2: in that community are very concerned about a proposal for

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Speaker 2: a KFC to go really close to three schools in

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Speaker 2: the area. So I think it's something that the government

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Speaker 2: should look at and the Greens are really going to

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Speaker 2: keep on pushing this.

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Speaker 1: Servos are moving into this space. They're sort of becoming

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Speaker 1: a one hub stop for petrol and fast food and

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Speaker 1: all sorts of other things as well. Would they be included,

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Speaker 1: would they be caught up in this? I mean they're

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Speaker 1: not really it's in the ol fashioned sense anymore than

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Speaker 1: just see petrol and everything.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it depends on what the primary focus

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Speaker 2: of the business is, you know, so we're not wanting

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Speaker 2: to shut down all food courts and stuff like that,

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Speaker 2: as I think that the Minister indicated he was concerned about.

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Speaker 2: And again there is an example of this. It's worked

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Speaker 2: effectively over in the city of London. It hasn't been

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Speaker 2: done in any other states here in Australia, but I

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Speaker 2: think it's a conversation we need to have as a community.

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Speaker 2: Isn't it time to start to regulate the access to

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Speaker 2: fast food restaurants to young people? Because you know, the

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Speaker 2: health consequences are pretty clear. I've been talking a lot

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Speaker 2: recently in Southstralia about things like young people's access to

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Speaker 2: social media. We're looking at vapes and cigarettes. These are

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Speaker 2: all really important discussions, but let's also look at the

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Speaker 2: health consequences associated with junk food and fast food.

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Speaker 1: Robert Sem appreciate your time, Thank.

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Speaker 2: You, thanks very much for having me.

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Speaker 1: Matthew Greens up a house MP here in Essa. So

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Speaker 1: legislation a private members bill to ensure fast food restaurants

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Speaker 1: or at least four hundred meters away future ones from

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Speaker 1: schools