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

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...