Last night’s federal budget announced $700k over four years towards the development of a National Nutrition Policy, a much-welcomed step in the right direction that President of Dietitians Australia, Tara Diversi commends.

A recently published position statement by Dietitians Australia revealed that as the planet’s health continues to decline, so too does the health of Australians.

At this week’s hearing of the NSW Inquiry into food production and supply, Dietitians Australia asked the NSW government to take a leading role in enabling all residents of the state to access nutritious food, through a Food Security Council.

Advertising for products that cause substantial harm should be required to follow government-led rules that protect our children, families and broader community. Dietitians Australia and 46 other public health and consumer organisations have released a statement on the alcohol industry's review of its Alcohol Beverages Advertising Code (ABAC).

Improving food security for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples living in remote, regional and urban parts of Australia is essential to achieving health equity.

Dietitians Australia joined Cancer Council NSW and 12 other health organisations in a call for the NSW government to remove unhealthy food advertising from property owned by, or contracted to, the NSW Government.

In this submission we provide the NSW Legislative Assembly Committee on Environment and Planning with 16 recommendations to improve food production and supply in NSW.

Following concerns about yesterday’s Residential Aged Care Quality Indicators report, Dietitians Australia is calling on the Australian Government to implement urgent measures to increase accountability in the nation’s residential aged care sector.

Our position on the role of healthy and sustainable diets in promoting human and planetary health.

Released February 2022 - In this submission Dietitians Australia provided the ACT Government with 25 recommendations to improve access to healthy and sustainable food in the ACT.