Released September 2022 - Dietitians Australia welcomed the opportunity to provide our expertise in response to the Digital Platform Services Inquiry’s issues paper on social media services.

Sent June 2022 - Following the Federal Election and change in government, Dietitians Australia wrote to the new Minister for Health and Aged Care, the Hon Mark Butler MP, to congratulate him on his appointment.

Australia’s new Minister for Health and Aged Care, Hon. Mark Butler MP must tackle food affordability and the nation’s alarming rise in diet-related illnesses through reviving the Labor government’s 1992 National Nutrition Policy.

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.

A recent report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) has confirmed that unhealthy eating is the new smoking with ‘overweight and obesity’ the number one risk factor contributing the highest cost to Australia’s health system, at $4.3billion versus $3.3billion for smoking.

Food and catering, constipation and continence management, falls prevention, change of clinical status & deterioration among top 10 complaints in aged care sector. Dietitians Australia calls for federal government to support mandatory malnutrition screening and mandatory meal quality assessments.

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.