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

  • Diversifying Australians’ investment choices by boosting confidence in our superannuation system

    Reza Tajaddini, Hassan Gholipour Fereidouni & Amir Arjomandi

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

    Cressida Gaukroger

  • Using the past to inform sustainable policies for the future

    Philippa Higgins, Chris Turney, Jonathan Palmer, Tristan Derham, Lucinda Duxbury and Matthew Fielding

More articles

  • Legalising drugs? Improving the quality of the debate

    A well-informed policy debate around legalisation should consider evidence from around the world on regulatory options for the supply, retail and consumption of currently illicit drugs.

    Paul Kelaita & Alison Ritter

  • No longer lost in translation

    The path to optimal collaboration between policymakers and researchers is long and winding – but innovative new institutions are helping accelerate the journey.

    Peter Shergold

  • Measuring what matters: embracing Mental Wealth as an overarching indicator of national prosperity

    As Australia embraces a broader definition of national progress, we should use metrics that prioritise the wellbeing of the economy and society together.

    Jo-An Occhipinti