Fiona Nash (NSW, National Party, Assistant Minister for Health) Share this | Hansard source

The government is committed to action on preventive health, but a focus on prevention is about more than creating a new bureaucracy with 'prevention' in its name. This is the agency that funded studies into fat taxes nobody wanted, sponsored the Summernats burnout competition and funded fake music festivals—hardly a good use of taxpayers' money.

Preventive health issues can still be progressed without the need for another Commonwealth-funded agency. And we will do so. Abolishing the Australian National Preventive Health Agency will streamline and better coordinate preventive health efforts that are currently spread across the Commonwealth health portfolio agencies.