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.

Height is probably 95 per cent genetic.

Once you get off the ladder you'll never get back on.

Health inequalities and the social determinants of health are not a footnote to the determinants of health. They are the main issue.

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.

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.

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.