Well it is great to have arrived with the family. Thanks for an amazing welcome. After two weeks settling though it is now back to work.

What is the plan? – it’s simple – to share and integrate the award winning work achieved in the UK here in Australia. To make a difference. To get more and more people contributing greater and better to society and their community. To help in partnership with amazing Australian people and places this nation so kind to welcome me here embrace better food choices and support those most vulnerable in its society.

Food is indeed my expertise. Behaviour change, governance and leadership also get me fired up. I have strong ethical values and forthright views and from farm to fork, cradle to grave, obesity to food poverty I want to be involved.

There is so much great work going on in the world of food its quite inspiring but it’s hard to find who is pulling it all together, leading the public health prevention required and establishing robust policy frameworks to get a food industry to move towards better food. I heard there are nearly 140 diet related deaths per day in Australia and nearly ten years ago it was a nation quoted as getting fatter faster than any other on the planet. I don’t know if that stat still stands by it feels like something you wouldn’t want to be the best at.

I have come across some stunning fresh foods already in cafes, bistro, restaurants, markets and shops. Such quality and standards should be affordable for all with food going centre stage in people lives as the core of what defines their health and well-being.

Do stay in touch and let’s make Food Work for Australia.

Happy Days – Rob