Yesterday, the National Body Image Advisory Group, of which I am Chair, presented our report to Minister Kate Ellis at parliament house –
an experience I will post about separately today because it WAS A TRIP.
Of the head kind.
It’s been an intense and exciting few days, the culmination of many months of work with the wonderful experts on the National Body Image Advisory Group and the terrific facilitation and assistance from theDepartment of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations working on the report into body image.
I’ve done a huge amount of media in the past 24 hours around the report and most of it has focused on the Industry Code of Conduct. I am posting that here as well so you can see it in full but I also wanted to post a summary of our recommendations because the report is so much more that just the code.
I am going to do my very best to answer any burning questions you may have about our work and the report so please leave comments after this post and I will try to answer as many as I can (please note: much as I would love to help out with school and uni assignments around body image, my own work and family commitments mean that I can’t. However you are welcome to use direct quotes from this post if that helps.)
Some context: back in March, the Federal Minister for Youth and Sport and Child Care, Kate Ellis, appointed a National Body Image Advisory Group and asked me to be Chair. Once I established what a human Chair actually was, I readily accepted and we have spent the past few months putting together a report advising the government how best to tackle the issue of negative body image among young people and the wider community.
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This is such an important issue. You should be so proud of this. Well done!
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