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The National Breastfeeding Strategy is a start, but if we really valued breast milk we'd put it in the GDP

Written by Julie Smith, Honorary Associate Professor, Australian National University

On tap, therapeutic, and much more valuable than cow's milk.Shutterstock

COAG Health Council. August 2, 2019

Australia’s new National Breastfeeding Strategy sets ambitious goals. By 2022 it wants 40% of Australian babies to exclusively breastfeed until they are six months old. At present it’s 25%.

By 2025 it wants 50%.

Beyond that it...

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