I came from a warm Jewish family.

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

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

I was born in North London, migrated to Australia when I was four. So when I first came to Australia people saw me as a little English boy. Over the years that feeling of being a little English boy diminished and I felt much more Australian.

I love Australia. I mean it's, how can you not? It's an incredibly beautiful country. I like the people, I like the country, I love it. I mean it's wonderful.

For every dollar spent on early child development you save $7 over the life course because children with better early child development are less likely to end up delinquent, involved in crime, unemployed and so on.

Throwing young people on the scrap heap is a public health emergency.