Project Description

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Wellbeing

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

    A more equitable future for Australians, starting with families

    15 August 2024

    Recent changes to Australia’s Paid Parental Leave scheme are a positive development. However, government can do more to value care work as a social good, including by encouraging fathers to take paternity leave and integrating parental leave with childcare and education policies.

    Sarah Duffy

    Emilee Gilbert

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

    Maxwell Yong

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

    Cliff Eberly and Wenqian Gan

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

    Harry Grant

More articles

  • Children in crisis need real relationships: the case for a child connection system

    A child protection system preoccupied with risk aversion is impeding the emotional growth of children. We need a new model based on relational care and reciprocity to break the cycle.

    Jarrod Wheatley

  • Developing community involvement in emergency management policy

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

    Pam Joseph, Cate Massola, Margot Rawsthorne & Amanda Howard

  • Building social resilience through community-oriented approaches to disaster management

    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