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?

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

    2 September 2024

    By measuring outcomes beyond immediate upfront costs, governments can develop a more holistic understanding of the downstream effects of their decisions. Here’s where to start.

    Cressida Gaukroger

  • Australia needs flexible, place-based childcare

    Teddy Nagaddya, Jenna Condie, Sharlotte Tusasiirwe & Kate Huppatz

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

    Jessica Cocks, Rob Ryan and Ben Spence

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

    Maxwell Yong

More articles

  • Getting the tertiary transition right: six things high schools can do to set students up for success at university

    The transition from school to university is a pivotal moment in the lives of young people – how can we better support their choices for improved individual and social outcomes?

    Maxwell Yong

  • ‘Round and ‘round we go! Let’s get off the carousel and build a social services system that works for people

    ‘Round and ‘round we go! Let’s get off the carousel and build a social services system that works for people

    As governments look to reform our social services systems, they must tap into the transformative power of relationships.

    Cliff Eberly and Wenqian Gan

  • Empowering the future: breaking the cycle of youth mental ill health through political agency

    With poor mental health outcomes for young people linked to a lack of agency to shape society, how can we better reflect the interests of youth in policy and politics?

    Harry Grant