Income management, introduced as part of the Northern Territory Emergency Response in remote Northern Territory communities in 2007, has had no beneficial effect on tobacco and cigarette sales, soft drink or fruit and vegetable sales, according to research published in the Medical Journal of Australia. Dr Julie Brimblecombe, Research Fellow at the Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, and co-authors conducted an interrupted time series analysis of sales data in 10 stores in 10 remote Northern Territory communities from 1 October 2006 to 30 September 2009...
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