Safer shared air 2026: It's time for a National Healthy Air Strategy

Indoor air quality is one of Australia’s most overlooked public health challenges and is increasingly recognised as a critical accessibility and inclusion issue. Alongside these benefits, improving indoor air quality also delivers economic gains, with studies linking increased ventilation to fewer missed workdays and improved productivity. This combination of public health, inclusion and economic benefits underscores why Australia urgently needs a national indoor air quality strategy.

The Safer shared air: Indoor air, health & productivity conference is the Safer Air Project’s third annual Parliament House event. The full day conference will explore indoor air quality as a silent driver of chronic disease, the economic opportunities that exist from improving indoor air quality, and how we can translate the evidence into world-leading national reform.

The event brings together people with lived experience, advocates, policymakers, clinicians, scientists, workplace health and safety experts, and built environment and industry leaders to examine the health and economic costs of poor indoor air quality, and the case for safer shared air.

Visit the conference website to learn more.