Our elected politicians do what they judge is the right thing to do. And if we disagree then I'll show them the evidence of why I disagree.

We have to put reduction of health inequalities at the centre of our public health strategy and that will require action on the social determinants of health.

The differences between Indigenous and not Indigenous Australians can be easily attributed not to differences in their genes but to differences in the conditions in which they're born, grow, live, work and age - in other words, to the social determinants of health.

The lower you are in the hierarchy the worse your health, the higher you are, the better your health.

The brain is an important gateway by which the social environment impacts on people's health through the mind.

Australia is a very healthy country which goes along with the fact that it's very high on the Human Development Index, high wealth, good levels of education. So Australia ranks right up there, second or third on the Human Development Index. And Indigenous Australians, if you treated them as if they were a separate country, would rank probably about 100th or below 100.

I'm not an Orthodox Jew, I don't practise much in the way of Jewish religion, but I am very Jewish and I think it probably does indeed influence what I do.