Indoor air quality is one of Australia’s most overlooked public health challenges and is increasingly recognised as a critical accessibility and inclusion issue.

There has been significant recent progress on indoor air quality in Australia, including the NSW Inquiry into indoor air, work underway through Safe Work Australia, and growing interest in standards.

Safer shared air 2026 is the Safer Air Project’s third annual Parliament House event. This full-day conference will bring together people from across health, research, workplace safety, standards, policy, advocacy, industry and lived experience to look at the impacts of poor air quality, what Australia is already doing, and what needs to happen next.

A major focus of the day will be the case for a National Healthy Air Strategy.

A growing coalition of organisations from across research, health, advocacy, unions, peak bodies, patient organisations and industry is coming together behind a clear ask of the Australian Government: a coordinated national approach to healthier indoor air.

Across three sessions, the conference will move from the health, participation and economic impacts of poor indoor air, through current Australian policy and regulatory developments, to the question of national reform and what a National Healthy Air Strategy could deliver.

Across three sessions, the conference will look at the health and productivity impacts of poor indoor air, what Australia is already doing to improve it, and what needs to happen next.

Join us – and help make action on air quality a reality for everyone in Australia.