Dear Mr Johnston

Thank you for your further correspondence. As you will realise, the Preventive Health Taskforce members are receiving submissions from many people around the country and it is difficult to go through them in detail, hence we have a secretariat in the Department sorting through the various submissions.

It is also difficult for members of the Taskforce to meet everyone who puts in a submission.

Let me say that your ideas find a very sympathetic response on my part being a keen bike rider, and it is likely that there will be opportunities for public forums around the Taskforce work either later this year or in 2009.

I’ve also passed on your materials to my team here who are very much involved in programs relating to physical activity, both for the prevention of diabetes and obesity and also their treatment.

Best wishes

Paul Zimmet

Paul Zimmet

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