tEnd of life care for people with advanced chronic disease is a growing international impera-tive, with the majority of deaths in the world now related to chronic disease. The provisionof care that meets the needs of people with advanced chronic disease must be guided byappropriate policy. The key policy areas impacting directly on end of life care are related tochronic disease, palliative care and, increasingly, aged care.This paper describes the outcomes of an audit of Australian chronic disease and endof life/palliative care policies. We identified that chronic disease health policies/strategiesdemonstrate a focus on prevention, early intervention and management, with scant recog-nition of end of life care needs. The majority assume that a referral to palliative care willaddress end of life care needs for people with chronic disease. By contrast, palliative carepolicies recognise the need for the incorporation of a palliative approach into advancedchronic disease care, but there are few connections between these two policy areas. Whilstpalliative care policies intersect with carer and advance care planning policies, chronic dis-ease policy does not. Key concerns requiring consideration when developing policy in thisarea are discussed and possible policy options identified