Australians of the Year

Australians of the Year call for plain packaging of tobacco

THE country’s six medical Australians of the Year have issued a united call to all political parties to support the plain packaging of tobacco products. The move – proposed as part of the Labor Government’s National Preventative Health Strategy – has been aggressively opposed by the tobacco industry. It has been reported that the proposal has prompted the tobacco industry to launch an anti-Labor advertising campaign ahead of the Federal Election. Professors Peter Doherty (Australian of the Year 1997), Sir Gustav Nossal (2000), Fiona Stanley (2003), Fiona Wood (2005), Ian Frazer (2006) and Patrick McGorry (2010) ...