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?

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

    31 May 2024

    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

    Ben Spence

  • Building bridges between climate scientists and policymakers

    Angela Kaplish

  • Eight industrial policy hacks: bolstering domestic capability under constrained fiscal conditions

    Christopher Day

  • How high schools can best prepare students for the real world

    Maxwell Yong

More articles

  • Aged care workforce shortages require action from the Jobs Summit & resourcing for high quality care

    While reforms to improve the quality of aged care are welcome, the government must also consider how to resource providers to meet higher standards.

    Nelson Ma, David Brown

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

    The new Labor government has a historic opportunity to boost young people’s wellbeing as part of its economic agenda—here’s how.

    Travers McLeod

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

    Is now the moment to (re)introduce an independent "buffer body" for the tertiary sector that will enable universities to respond to future jobs, skills and research needs?

    Libby Hackett