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Welcome to the Australia Together National Wellbeing Index
Australia Together is a plan for a better Australia currently in starting draft form. It houses the Australia Together National Wellbeing Index - a large collection of data and information about:
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the current health of Australia's society, environment, economy, and democracy; and
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targets and strategies for improving that health by 2050 or sooner.
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The Index is a work in progress and is continually being updated to ensure Australians have the data they need to be able to monitor the nation's progress towards a better level of wellbeing and a more resilient and secure future.
In 2024, the Index contained baseline and target data on over 360 indicators of the wellbeing of Australians and the country, making it the largest consolidated wellbeing index of its kind.
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Reports on trends in wellbeing based on the data are produced just before federal parliamentary elections to help Australians assess the competence of their governments in relation to the Vision and targets of Australia Together.
The Australia Together National Wellbeing Index is unique in that it looks both forward and backward in time.
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Click here for the latest consolidated report on trends in the data - The State of Australia 2022.
Measuring wellbeing in Australia
ACFP engages with the Australian government on matters relating to wellbeing and best practice in construction of wellbeing indexes for use in long term national integrated planning and reporting.
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View ACFP's Fact sheet on alignment of the indicators in the federal government's Measuring What Matters wellbeing indicators framework with the Australia Together National Wellbeing Index: Does Australia Together measure what matters?
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View ACFP's submission to Treasury on Measuring What Matters - January 2023.
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View an essay by ACFP's Founder Bronwyn Kelly on how wellbeing can best be measured to build a fair and competitive that delivers what Australians really value. This is an essay in reply to Australia's Treasurer Jim Chalmers on Capitalism After the Crises.
Read the full essay in reply to Jim Chalmers here.
Listen to the full essay here on ACFP's YouTube podcasts.