Project Description

Return to challenges

Wellbeing

How can Australia prioritise wellbeing and early intervention – including in education and care – to address social and economic challenges?

    Key objectives for drug policy reform following the NSW Drug Summit

    17 January 2025

    Prevention, early intervention, harm reduction and education should be prioritised in the NSW Government’s new Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) Strategy.

    Jack Wilson

    Kate Ross

    Steph Kershaw

  • Reducing the prevalence of diabetes and empowering communities for prevention

    Cristy Brooks and Freya MacMillan

  • Better budgeting: measuring the real long-term costs and benefits of policy

    Cressida Gaukroger

  • A more equitable future for Australians, starting with families

    Sarah Duffy & Emilee Gilbert

More articles

  • Prioritising prevention: a sustainable path to investing in wellbeing

    Some governments are starting to develop better frameworks to understand the benefits of investing in long-term wellbeing and prevention. Here’s where to start.

    Hannah Lobb

  • Australia needs flexible, place-based childcare

    A childcare system that responds to the actual needs of families and local communities will improve equity and increase productivity. Here’s what a flexible, place-based approach might look like.

    Teddy Nagaddya, Jenna Condie, Sharlotte Tusasiirwe & Kate Huppatz

  • Families and communities hold the solutions in child protection – we just need to use them

    Harnessing the skills and insight of people with experience in the system is the key to sustainable and transformative reform of our child protection systems.

    Jessica Cocks, Rob Ryan and Ben Spence