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?

    Building social resilience through community-oriented approaches to disaster management

    31 October 2023

    While governments often prioritise rebuilding roads and other physical infrastructure post-disaster, just as great a focus is needed on supporting communities to build resilient social infrastructure.

    Timothy Heffernan

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

    Alicia Mollaun

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

    Jenny Gordon

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

    Peter Doherty

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  • Affordable access to high-quality care remains out of reach to many Australians (Photo by Courtneyk/iStock)

    Finding a pathway to better mental health services in Australia

    High-quality mental health care is possible. But it will demand structural reform, effective accountability, and the will to make it a reality.

    Ian Hickie