Bipartisan punches: politicians compete in fitness challenge

Australian Community Media

Australian politicians are taking up AUSactive’s Fit for Office challenge to move more. Australia’s peak body for the exercise and active health sector, AUSactive, is calling on the government to increase funding for preventive health.

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00:0075% of Australians are considered inactive.

00:03Just think about that.

00:05We've got almost 28 million Australians,

00:0875% of them are not active enough in their life.

00:12And the detriment to them, but also their community

00:15and also the health system is huge.

00:17They're not going to feel good.

00:18We're not going to feel great as a country.

00:20And we've got this history of great weather in Australia,

00:23active lifestyles, and we're not living up to that reputation.

00:27Get that anger out.

00:30We love Fit for Office because it actually gets every politician

00:34to put down the swords and actually come together

00:37for something they can all agree on.

00:39And every politician that we see here agrees with the fact

00:43that more active living, more movement is good for health

00:46and they can all agree on that.

00:48I'm shocked to see that there is a low participation rate,

00:52particularly amongst young people and people in their early 20s.

00:56We see ourselves as Australians that we're fit

00:59and we're watching the footy and we're out there doing stuff.

01:01We just need more and more people to be doing that.

01:03So I think we are role models.

01:06We can role model to our communities that we're doing this.

01:10And we're gonna be doing this.

01:17Yeah.

01:22Yeah.

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