“We have such a serious public health problem on our hands,” Jane Martin, the executive manager of the Obesity Policy Coalition was quoted on the program. “27% of children above a healthy weight, 63% of adults, 11 million people ... We cannot leave it up to the food industry to solve this. They have an imperative to make a profit for their shareholders. They don't have an imperative to create a healthy, active Australia.”

Bingo. The government does. And the idea of the Prime Minister, in rejecting the sugar tax last September saying people should “Get up and walk,” doesn’t cut it. Nor do the views of Tony Abbott, Barnaby Joyce, and Fiona Nash – who as PM, Deputy PM, and Health Minister have publicly opposed such a tax, and on similar grounds: “Individual responsibility, etc ...”

So let’s cut back to Four Corners, as it showed Britain's former Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, speaking truth, from power as he said, “Mr Deputy Speaker, I’m not prepared to look back at my time here in this Parliament, doing this job and say to my children’s generation: ‘I’m sorry. We knew there was a problem with sugary drinks. We knew it caused disease. But we ducked the difficult decisions and we did nothing’.”

As good as his word, the Government of Teresa May – Tories, of course, not hand-wringing basket-weaving “lefties,” as you will soon see us advocates of sugar tax being accused of – last month became the 28th country in the world to introduce a tax on sweetened beverages, as in Coca-Cola, Pepsi, flavoured milk, cordials and the like, all of which have ludicrous amounts of sugar in them.

What’s stopping the introduction of such an obvious measure here?