“Australia is a very healthy country which goes along with the fact that it's very high on the Human Development Index, high wealth, good levels of education. So Australia ranks right up there, second or third on the Human Development Index. And Indigenous Australians, if you treated them as if they were a separate country, would rank probably about 100th or below 100.” IfsHumansCountryFactsWealthLevelsDevelopmentHealthyThirdsTreatedAustraliaIndigenousHuman Development Author:Michael Marmot
“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.” ChildrenEndsCoursesCrimeDevelopmentInvolvedDollarsUnemployedChild DevelopmentDelinquents Author:Michael Marmot
“Saying we can't afford to invest in early child development means we're storing up bigger costs in the future.” MeanChildrenDevelopmentCostBiggerChild Development Author:Michael Marmot
