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"In an implicit admission that the Commonwealth budget may not measure what
really matters, Treasurer Jim Chalmers is about to release what he is calling
“Measuring What Matters” – Australia’s first national wellbeing framework.
The statement was to have been released as part of this year’s May budget, and
an earlier hurriedly-prepared attempt was included in Chalmers’ 2022 budget.
Chalmers’ description of it as Australia’s “first” national wellbeing framework
is an acknowledgement that first wellbeing statement didn’t amount to a
framework. Chalmers says he is “up for the necessary conversations” needed to
improve the framework further.
The one he is about to release has benefited from more than 280 submissions and
the time needed to distil everything that matters for wellbeing into five broad
themes, made up of about 50 indicators the treasury will track through time.
Chalmers says the themes are the extent to which Australia is
* healthy
* secure
* sustainable
* cohesive
* prosperous.
In what turned out to be a parallel process, we have been developing what we
call an “integrated science of wellbeing” and have just published a book with
21 contributions on the subject through Oxford University Press."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
