While most public health experts agreed, when pressed, that accounting for public health should include the activities of, and investments by, the non-health portfolios of governments (such as education and transport), local governments and nongovernment organisations (NGOs), current public health expenditure reporting is largely limited to that by State, Territory and Australian Government health portfolios. 27 One view was that the activities of other (non-health) sectors should only be counted when public health is their primary purpose (e.g. immunisation organised by local government). In practice there are major difficulties in capturing information on public health activities and expenditure by non-health sectors. 28