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"We have much more care in healthier, wealthier parts of Australia than in poorer, sicker parts of Australia," Peter Breadon, from the Grattan Institute think tank says.

Foreign purchases of homes, meanwhile, is "a very small issue" with not much meaningful impact on housing strain, says Brendan Coates, from the Grattan Institute public policy think tank.

As a new Grattan Institute report shows, there are practical steps the federal government can take to save lives, reduce health spending and help the economy.

Ms Satchwell was 45 when she was reported missing from her home in Grattan Street in Youghal in March 2017.

The government’s nearly $500 million promise was part of a bigger surge in rural infrastructure spending that the last administration hoped would help keep it in power, said Marion Terrill, a transportation expert at the Grattan Institute in Melbourne.