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

The Australian government will continue to invest in prevention through activities targeted at specific needs in the population and will support people to take personal responsibility for their lifestyle actions to reduce their health related risk factors. Funding to jurisdictions through the National Partnership Agreement on Preventive Health has not been an efficient way for the Commonwealth to achieve preventative health outcomes and has led to the duplication of effort and programs. We have seen a number of measures undertaken to ensure that we will have focus on preventative health into the future. This government is absolutely focused on tackling obesity and ensuring particularly our young people have every educational opportunity they can to improve their lifestyle and health choices.