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?

    Developing community involvement in emergency management policy

    29 November 2023

    How can the law and policy governing disaster responses better facilitate shared decision-making between communities and government?

    Pam Joseph

    Cate Massola

    Margot Rawsthorne

  • Young people must be at the centre of the government’s jobs and skills plan

    Travers McLeod

  • “Freedom within a framework” – how Australia’s universities can make a full economic contribution

    Libby Hackett

  • Digital solutions to Australia’s youth mental health crisis

    Amira Skeggs

More articles

  • A young boy watches his team at a sports arena.

    Child responsive budgeting: Why Australia needs to put children front and centre in policymaking

    For Australia to become more inclusive—where no one is left behind—children need to be front of mind for policymakers when developing and implementing our post-Covid recovery framework.

    Alicia Mollaun

  • Australian student writing on an exam paper (Photo by Lincoln Beddoe/iStock)

    Improving secondary education is not only the right thing to do – it is good for future productivity growth

    The declining performance of Australia’s secondary schools is limiting productivity growth. An ambitious, inclusive plan for policy reform is needed to move things in a better direction.

    Jenny Gordon

  • A mobile testing site in the car park of Chadstone shopping centre in Melbourne, Australia (DLMcK/iStock)

    The policy dividend of integrated knowledge: perspectives from the COVID-19 experience

    COVID-19 reminded us that insights from the lab and the social world must be considered in tandem to tackle some of our hardest public health challenges.

    Peter Doherty