Project Description

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Wellbeing

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

    A more equitable future for Australians, starting with families

    15 August 2024

    Recent changes to Australia’s Paid Parental Leave scheme are a positive development. However, government can do more to value care work as a social good, including by encouraging fathers to take paternity leave and integrating parental leave with childcare and education policies.

    Sarah Duffy

    Emilee Gilbert

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

    Jo-An Occhipinti

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

    Katherine Trebeck

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

    Jenny Gordon

More articles

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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