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?

    Two minutes is all it takes: measuring food security in Australia

    23 January 2025

    Food insecurity is a growing problem for Australians – but we need better data and evidence to understand it. Here’s how government can implement more robust and comprehensive data collection to inform policymaking on food security.

    Sue Kleve

    Katherine Kent

    Rebecca Lindberg

  • 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

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

    Maxwell Yong

More articles

  • ‘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

  • 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