Category: Federal Budget
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Parliament overhauls national tobacco law
Malcolm Baalman, Public Health Association of Australia Arguably the most important item of public health legislation to be addressed by our national Parliament in over a decade was finally approved by the Senate last week. The Public Health (Tobacco and Other Products) Bill 2023 is the result of a 4-year…
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PHAA’s submission marks 30 years of advocating for a CDC
PHAA Policy and Advocacy Team After more than 30 years advocating for the establishment of an Australian Centre for Disease Control (CDC), the PHAA team is celebrating the lodging of our submission today to the Australian Government addressing the questions outlined in the Role and Functions of an Australian Centre…
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Pandemic-era Health Minister Greg Hunt retires
Malcolm Baalman, PHAA As happens at every federal election, several long-serving Members of Parliament have retired. Two in particular have influenced public health in Australia. Today we profile the Hon. Greg Hunt, former Member for Flinders, and Minister for Health 2016-2022. Elected to the House of Representatives in 2001, Hunt…
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An opportunity squandered: Budget 2022 fails to invest in lauded National Preventive Health Strategy
Terry Slevin – PHAA CEO What if Australia invested in Preventive Health? A reflection on the 2022 Budget If well researched strategies for preventive and public health stated in the 2021-2030 National Preventive Health Strategy were to be given credence, and be implemented, it would have been reflected through…
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Sick governance risks all our health
Malcolm Baalman – PHAA Senior Policy and Advocacy Adviser We saw a disappointing Budget this week, with virtually no new investment in population-level prevention of diseases. What governments decide to do – or not do – makes a huge difference to the population’s health. Governments make laws about environmental health,…
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Before hitting the brakes on unhealthy products, let’s take our foot off the accelerator
Adjunct Professor Terry Slevin, CEO PHAA This post is the fourth in our series of articles exploring the PHAA’s 2022-23 pre-Budget submission, The Public Health Crisis Budget. Read the first post here, the second, and the third. “The commercial determinants of health are defined as factors that influence health which…
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Building a national approach to preventive health investment or the “Vomit principle” in action
Adjunct Professor Terry Slevin, CEO PHAA This post is the third in our series of articles exploring the PHAA’s 2022-23 pre-Budget submission, The Public Health Crisis Budget. Read the first and the second posts. The “Vomit Principle”? Let me explain. The CEO of the well-respected Grattan Institute spoke to a…
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Public health measures can help balance the Budget
Adjunct Professor Terry Slevin – PHAA CEO This post is the second in our series of articles exploring the PHAA’s 2022-23 pre-Budget submission, The Public Health Crisis Budget. Read the first post here. Government revenue, primarily gathered through taxes, is and always has been, a fundamentally political issue. Governments need…
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Where will the 2022-23 Budget take us?
Adjunct Professor Terry Slevin – PHAA CEO This post is the first in our series of articles exploring the PHAA’s 2022-23 pre-Budget submission, The Public Health Crisis Budget. Future articles will include levies on harmful products including tobacco, alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages. With polls showing the federal Government is a…