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?

    Key objectives for drug policy reform following the NSW Drug Summit

    17 January 2025

    Prevention, early intervention, harm reduction and education should be prioritised in the NSW Government’s new Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) Strategy.

    Jack Wilson

    Kate Ross

    Steph Kershaw

  • ‘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

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

    Jarrod Wheatley

More articles

  • 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

  • Microcredentials: Small steppingstones towards a more inclusive future?

    Skills mismatches will grow due to climate change and its economic fallout. Microcredentials can enable rapid and inclusive re-skilling while offering universities an opportunity to re-invent their mission in a “climate changed” world.

    Jack Isherwood