Second National Forum on Australia’s Wellbeing 2024
Community, Business, and Government
An economy that enables people, communities,
business, and nature to thrive
Setting Australia’s Wellbeing Agenda
26th to 28th June 2024
National Museum of Australia, Lawson Cres, Acton ACT
In 2024, over 220 attendees participated in person and online over the three day event, enabling decisions makers engaged in building wellbeing into policy and action across Australia to come together and share experiences, insights and inspiration for future activity. Details about the event, including a list of speakers and the full program, are available below.
Gavin Blake, a talented visual scribe, attended the event and his work can be seen below by clicking on the links. Speaker presentations and recordings will be published soon where permission is given.
You can access details about the 2022 forum by clicking here, where more than 100 attendees gathered for the first Building Wellbeing into Policy and Action in Australia forum.
Visual Scribe, Gavin Blake
To see the still images, click on the links below from each session.
| Day 1: Building wellbeing into policy and action – the state of the nation |
| Keynote speech – Dr Ken Henry |
| Session: Wellbeing in Australia: the state of the nation |
| Session: Embedding wellbeing across government and society |
| Session: Wellbeing in policy and action across Australia’s governments |
| Session: Making the paradigm shift: getting to the wellbeing economy |
| Day 2: Wellbeing for people and planet |
| Session: Wellbeing for people and planet |
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Session: Wellbeing and resilience in the land of drought and flooding rains |
| Keynote speech – Kate Scrivens |
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Wellbeing across diverse regions: a wellbeing agenda outside the cities |
| Day 3: Setting Australia’s wellbeing agenda |
| Session: Setting Australia’s wellbeing agenda: what do we need? |
| Closing keynote – Professor Emerita Julianne Schultz |
Speakers and presentations
Download speaker bios and talk summaries here.
Download the full conference program here.
Speakers included decision makers and leaders from Australia and internationally, bringing together perspectives from government, academic, corporate and not-for-profit sectors.
Presentation slides are available below by clicking on the word ‘slides’ next to each speaker’s name and presentation below (for those who have given permission to share). Presentation recordings will be available by clicking ‘recording’ next to the presentation name and panel discussion recordings will be available by clicking on ‘panel recording’ next to the panel name in the relevant conference day and session.
| Day 1: Building wellbeing into policy and action – the state of the nation | ||
| Hon Dr Jim Chalmers MP, Treasurer of Australia | Video message | Recording |
| Dr Ken Henry AC FASSA FAIIA | Keynote speech | |
| Session 1: Wellbeing in Australia: the state of the nation | ||
| Kate Lycett (SEED Lifespan, Deakin University) | The Australian Unity Wellbeing Index | Recording |
| Catie Bradbear (Closing the Gap Review) | Improving life outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people | Slides |
| Jacki Schirmer & Mel Mylek (University of Canberra) | The Wellbeing of different Australians in 2024 | |
| Kate Lycett, Catie Bradbear, Jacki Schirmer, Mel Mylek | Panel: Wellbeing in Australia: the state of the nation | |
| Session 2: Embedding wellbeing across government and society | ||
| Cressida Gaukroger (Centre for Policy Development) | It’s not what you do, it’s the way that you do it: Embedding a wellbeing approach into government | Recording |
| Mary-Kathryn Adams (CEO, Simetrica-Jacobs) | Lessons from around the globe: Leveraging the power of human-centred decision-making through wellbeing | |
| Siobhan Henderson & Adam Vise (Australian Unity) | Measuring and investing in wellbeing – an enterprise perspective | |
| Cressida Gaukroger, Mary-Kathryn, Siobhan Henderson, Adam Vise | Panel: Embedding wellbeing across government and society | Panel |
| Session 3: Wellbeing in policy and action across Australia’s governments | ||
| Kristen Baker (Commonwealth Treasury) | Measuring what matters | |
| Robert Gotts & Peter Robinson (ACT Government, Wellbeing Framework) | ACT Wellbeing Framework and budgeting | |
| Michelle Morgan (Tasmania, Department of Premier and Cabinet) | Progress of Tasmania’s wellbeing framework | |
| Brenton Caffin (SA, Department of the Premier and Cabinet) | Embedding wellbeing in South Australia – recent experience | |
| Xuan Deng (NSW Treasury) | NSW Performance and Wellbeing Framework | |
| Kristen Baker, Peter Robinson, Robert Gotts, Michelle Morgan, Brenton Caffin, Xuan Deng | Panel: Wellbeing in policy and action across Australia’s governments | |
| Session 4: Making the paradigm shift: getting to the wellbeing economy | ||
| Warwick Smith (Centre for Policy Development) | What a wellbeing economy can do for all Australians | Recording |
| Warwick Smith, Katherine Trebeck (Next Economy, WEAll), Ken Henry | Panel: Getting to the wellbeing economy | Panel recording |
| WEAll Australia Hub launch | Recording | |
| Day 2: Wellbeing for people and planet | ||
| Session 1: Wellbeing for people and plant | ||
| Tony Capon (Monash Sustainable Development Institute) | Wellbeing for people and planet | Recording |
| Arunima Malik (University of Sydney) | Environmental and Social spillover impacts embodied in international supply chains | |
| Chris Cosgrove (Sustenance Asia) | Embedding wellbeing in sustainability reporting | |
| Tony Capon, Arunima Malik, Chris Cosgrove | Panel: Wellbeing for people and plant | |
| Session 2: Wellbeing for all ages and for future generations | ||
| Roslyn Dundas (ARACY) | The Nest Effect: Weaving Child Wellbeing in National Policy | Recording |
| Carolyn Wallace (VicHealth) | Future Healthy Countdown 2030: Measuring what matters for good health and wellbeing for all of Australia’s children and young people | |
| Taylor Dee Hawkins (Foundations for Tomorrow) | A uniquely Australian approach to future generations policy | Recording |
| Anne Hollands (National Children’s Commissioner), Roslyn Dundas, Carolyn Wallace, Taylor Dee Hawkins | Panel: Wellbeing for all ages and for future generations | Panel recording |
| Session 3: Wellbeing and resilience in the land of drought and flooding rains | ||
| Jacki Schirmer (University of Canberra) | Early insights for more resilient communities | |
| Lisa Gibbs (University of Melbourne) | Protecting wellbeing in times of climate change & increased disaster exposure | |
| John Richardson (Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience) | It’s all about being well | Recording |
| Jacki Schirmer, Lisa Gibbs, John Richardson | Panel: Wellbeing and resilience in the land of drought and flooding rains | Panel recording |
| Kate Scrivens (OECD Centre for Well-Being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity) | Keynote speech | |
| Session 4: Wellbeing across diverse regions: a wellbeing agenda outside the cities | ||
| Phil Duncan (Galambany Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra) | Keynote speech: Water, Country and First Nations wellbeing | |
| Betty-Ann Bryce (Regional and Rural Policy Unit, OECD) | Applying a rural and indigenous lens to wellbeing to enable more effective policy actions | |
| Geoff Woolcock (Australian National Development Index) | Building wellbeing into regional decision-making: supporting and enabling Australia’s rural leaders | |
| Natalie Egleton (FRRR) | Investing in rural wellbeing: the critical ingredient for vibrant places and resilient economies | Slides |
| Phil Duncan, Betty-Ann Bryce, Geoff Woolcock, Natalie Egleton, Susi Tegan (National Rural Health Alliance) | Panel: Wellbeing across diverse regions: a wellbeing agenda outside the cities | |
| Day 3: Wellbeing for people and planet | ||
| Session 1: Setting Australia’s wellbeing agenda: what do we need? | ||
| Mike Salvaris (ANDI, University of Melbourne) | Wellbeing: good policy or democratic keystone? | |
| Benson Saulo (Liberal Candidate for Macnamara) | Shaping Systems | Recording |
| Kate Chaney MP | Creating a mandate for a federal wellbeing agenda | Recording |
| Mike Salvaris, Benson Saulo, Kate Chaney MP | Panel: Setting Australia’s wellbeing agenda: what do we need? | Recording |
| Session 2: Measuring the right things: best practice to support decision making | ||
| Rosemary Goodyear | Data that improves lives today and for generations to come | |
| Bec Glauert (Australian Child and Youth Wellbeing Atlas) | The Australian Child and Youth Wellbeing Atlas: Democratising data for improved decision making and advocacy | |
| Julian Szafraniec (SGS Economics and Planning) | SGS Cities and Regions Wellbeing Index – Learnings from an objective approach | |
| Bec Glauert, Julian Szafraniec | Panel: Measuring the right things: best practice to support decision making | Panel recording |
| Professor Emerita Julianne Schultz AM FAHA FRSN | Closing Keynote: Learning from the past to reimagine the future | Recording |
Contact us
For more information about the forum or registering for the forum, email wellbeingsummit@canberra.edu.au or call 1800 981 499.
2024 Sponsors
The forum is supported by a committed group of planners who are from University of Canberra, Australian National Development Index (ANDI), Australia Social Value Bank, Centre for Policy Development, Monash Sustainability Development Institute and Deakin University.
