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

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

    Maxwell Yong

  • 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

More articles

  • 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

  • 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