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For measures of wellbeing to be useful to the budget process, they will need to be both timely and capture more than the ‘average’.
We estimate that unemployment and underemployment in the 13 years between 2004 and 2016 directly resulted in more than 3,000 Australian deaths by suicide.
Mental health plays a significant role in productivity but is often overlooked. To maintain its promising economic growth, Indonesia must put its people’s well-being into the calculation.
As living standards rise, we could see smaller populations but much bigger ecological impacts.
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.
New research shows there is a direct relationship between central bank interest rate decisions and mental health.
Education should be for everyone not only those in formal education institutions. Popular education programmes presents an opportunity for people to learn how to contribute to a sustainable future.
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