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Contents Vol 35(2)

Children arriving hungry in the first year of school: population trends in Australia from 2009 to 2021

Adam Gavin A , Mary Brushe A B Alanna Sincovich A B *
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A The Kids Research Institute Australia, University of Western Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

B School of Public Health, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

* Correspondence to: alanna.sincovich@adelaide.edu.au

Public Health Research and Practice 35, PU24022 https://doi.org/10.1071/PU24022
Submitted: 10 October 2024  Accepted: 31 March 2025  Published: 5 June 2025

© 2025 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of the Sax Institute. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)

Keywords: AEDC, Australia, breakfast skipping, child hunger, food insecurity, school breakfast programs, school children, school meals.

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