Queensland public hospitals and health care facilities are set to ban unhealthy junk food and sugary drinks in a move that hopes to curb the obesity epidemic.
In addition, junk food advertising around children in schools, sports grounds and public transport will eventually be removed, as a part of the State Governments changes.
Health Minister Steven Miles said that one quarter of Queensland children are either overweight or obese and that the government is now leading the change in developing a nutritional standards guideline.