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 that

00:43more 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,

00:51particularly amongst young people.

00:53We see ourselves as Australians that we're fit

00:56and we're watching the footy and we're out there doing stuff.

00:59We just need more and more people to be doing that.

01:01So I think we are role models.

01:04We can role model to our communities that we're doing this.

01:08We're performing in

01:19the way.

01:21We're working on a list.

01:25We can role models.

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