fast food outlets MESSAGE GUIDE
Title: Fast Food Outlets and Better Planning Decisions Message Guide
Topics: Fast Food Outlets, Unhealthy Food, Healthy Eating, Planning
Published: 2025
Partners: Cancer Council WA
This message guide is designed to support advocates calling for stronger planning policies, ensuring that public health and community needs are prioritised in fast food outlet approval processes . It provides evidence-based messaging strategies for media, public policy, advocacy, and campaigns .
The guide is informed by in-depth message research involving interviews with advocates, an extensive discourse analysis and message testing with over 1200 Australians conducted by Common Cause Australia on behalf of Cancer Council WA in 2024 and 2025.
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