Newspaper reports notwithstanding, Australia’s Measuring What Matters framework is going from strength to strength, becoming deeper embedded in government decision-making.
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One set of ideas runs counter to the mainstream consensus that technology will save us from climate change. Can degrowth ever win enough converts to persuade humanity to change course?
For measures of wellbeing to be useful to the budget process, they will need to be both timely and capture more than the ‘average’.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers wants to make the national wellbeing framework part of how governments make decisions, as others like Wales have done. But international experience suggests it won’t be easy.
The new wellbeing framework, set to be released, has five broad themes and about 50 indicators treasury will track over time. Our new book shows how important but difficult measuring wellbeing can be.
Thursday’s ‘orthodox no-frills budget’ sounds like Labour is switching from Ecostore to Kmart: never mind your wellbeing, this is about Labour’s political survival.
The Albanese government’s first budget contains many measures that may contribute to wellbeing, but that’s not the same as being a wellbeing budget.
Australia cannot get its environmental act together. We don’t even have the information we need to fix environmental problems. But there is a better way.
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Honorary Fellow, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, University of Canberra
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Honorary Associate Professor, ANU College of Law, Australian National University
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Research Associate, Public Policy Institute, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Director ANU Centre for Health Stewardship, Australian National University
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Reader of Public Policy, University of Warwick
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Senior lecturer, Canberra School of Government, University of Canberra
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Honorary Associate Professor, Australian National University
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Associate Professor, Institute for Global Prosperity, UCL
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Professor and Clinical Psychologist, School of Medicine & Psychology, Australian National University
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Professor of Ecological Economics, UCL