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Wellbeing

How can Australia prioritise wellbeing and early intervention – including in education and care – to address social and economic challenges?

    Reducing the prevalence of diabetes and empowering communities for prevention

    18 November 2024

    Better coordinated approaches that prioritise preventative health could help stem diabetes prevalence in Australia.

    Cristy Brooks

    Freya MacMillan

  • 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

  • Turning waste into wealth: the future of manufacturing with waste feedstock

    Veena Sahajwalla & Anirban Ghose

More articles

  • 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

  • Mixed messages: policy considerations for the growing use of illicit substances as therapeutic agents in Australia

    Policymakers should draw on Australian and international lessons from prescribing cannabis to implement effective regulation for the medicinal use of MDMA and psilocybin.

    Jack Wilson, Emily Stockings, and Maree Teesson