Eating less salt could see Australians collectively living an extra 36,000 healthy years in the next two decades, this Grattan Institute report finds. Each year, it would prevent more than 300 deaths while saving money, freeing up health spending equivalent to 6000 hospital visits.

The authors of this report argue that the Albanese Government’s promised Australian Centre for Disease Control, or ACDC, could provide the wake-up call Australia needs - but only if preventing chronic disease is a core part of its mission.

This report calls for an overhaul of the way general practitioners work and get paid so Australia can turn the tide of chronic disease, keep more people out of hospital, and ensure poorer Australians get the care they need when they need it.

The authors of this report argue that old trucks should be banned from Sydney and Melbourne, as part of a comprehensive plan to reduce Australians’ exposure to deadly air pollution, and that government should rescind pointless regulations which limit the range of less-polluting trucks available to buy here.

According to this report there’s a proven way to reduce carbon emissions and unhealthy pollutants, without dictating to anybody what car they can drive. Australia should adopt an emissions standard, or ceiling, for new light vehicles, applied across the offering of each manufacturer, just like 80 per cent of the rest of the world does.