The academic life is wonderful. That's why people love to do research.

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

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.

I don't blame people for smoking when I see a social gradient in smoking. I say we need to understand why is it the lower you are in the hierarchy the more likely you are to smoke. So we need to address the causes of the causes.

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.

Height is probably 95 per cent genetic.

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.