The paper identifies five pillars for health reform with associated policy costings and timeframes. It calls for immediate action to modernise Medicare and to lift public hospitals out of logjam. It also seeks commitments to address growing threats to private health sector sustainability and calls for the implementation of a sugar tax.

This report looks at how government can improve nutrition and health outcomes for the public, arguing that the current approach is insufficient. The authors call for government intervention to shift the obesity conversation away from individual choice to focus on the commercial food environment and social determinants of poor nutrition.

In order to alleviate the burden of disease caused by diabetes in Australia, this report asserts that the primary aim must be prevention, and it is very important that every strategy possible is used as part of a comprehensive preventative response, requiring an all-of-government approach.

Australians consume far too much sugar, which is one of the main reasons our rates of obesity and type 2 diabetes are so high. The authors of this report argue that with surging adoption and growing evidence that self regulation has failed, it’s time for Australia to catch up with the rest of the world...

This report provides a blueprint for healthcare investment across five pillars: general practice, public hospitals, private health, a health system for all, and a health system for the future. The report outlines several costed, targeted and implementable initiatives that demonstrate why health is the best investment governments can make.