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

  • Legalising drugs? Improving the quality of the debate

    Paul Kelaita & Alison Ritter

  • Legalising drugs? Improving the quality of the debate

    Paul Kelaita & Alison Ritter

  • No longer lost in translation

    Peter Shergold

More articles

  • 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

  • The wellbeing economy: our opportunity to redesign a more humane economy

    Australia and the world need a new economic and social paradigm that prioritises people and the planet.

    Katherine Trebeck

  • The biggest risks of AI don’t come from it getting smarter than us – they come from us

    Policymakers should prioritise the risks of inequality, a loss of creativity and self-interested manipulation when thinking about AI.

    Jenny Gordon