Australia has gone backwards and is well behind international best practices when it comes to food and nutrition policy according to the latest Food Policy Index Scorecard released today.

Released October 2022 - Our submission gives recommendations for the Code of Conduct for Aged Care, including to more explicitly define who it does and doesn't apply to.

Almost one in ten residents in Australian Aged Care homes are continuing to lose weight, when they shouldn’t, according to the latest data released by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.

Health Minister Mark Butler MP officially opened #DA2022, the largest annual gathering of professionals in nutrition and dietetics in Australia this morning in Adelaide.

Dietitians Australia welcomes the focus on aged care legislative reform by the Albanese Government on the first parliamentary sitting day for the new government. 

Dietitians Australia provided feedback and recommendations for the proposed design of the Support at Home Program, a new program for aged care at home.

Dietitians Australia welcomes the Albanese Government’s reaffirmed commitment to improving food and nutrition for aged care residents, announced this week.To achieve this, the Government must introduce mandatory malnutrition screening in all residential and in-home aged care settings. An Accredited Practising Dietitian must be engaged for annual on-site menu and mealtime audits. 

Dietitians Australia has scored the major parties on their election priorities, with both the LNP and Labor not demonstrating a commitment to affordable food and nutrition for Australia’s most vulnerable.

Access to affordable nutritional support for people with mental illness and disability via Medicare, as well as mandatory reporting measures to protect older Australians in aged care, are not priorities for Australia’s major parties.

We asked the Liberal National Party, the Australian Labor Party and the Greens to complete an election scorecard, rating their commitments to our five federal election requests.