This report highlights the worrying fact that digital marketing for alcohol, unhealthy food and gambling is reaching children at a very young age, affecting their attitudes, habits, consumption – and health. This report calls for strong, evidence-based policies and government regulation to protect children from digital marketing by harmful industries.

This report analyses how the current regulatory system fails in the objective to protect children from the marketing of unhealthy food and what needs to be done to improve the way the system works.

In this report, the agencies identify eight clear, practical, evidence-based actions the Australian government must take to reduce the enormous strain excess weight and poor diets are having on the nation’s physical and economic health.