The Centre for Policy Development’s Measuring What Matters submission to Treasury followed the inclusion of a Wellbeing Statement in the 2022 October Budget papers.
The submission draws on CPD’s expertise in Wellbeing Government to recommend a thorough, diverse and local discussion throughout Australia to develop national goals for long-term wellbeing.
We need to determine what matters to us as a country – what we are working towards – before we can measure what matters and whether we are making progress towards it.
In finding out what really matters to Australians the government has an opportunity to identify the central goals that make up a national vision of the future.
Measuring What Matters identifies several lessons for contemporary policymakers. It proposes the following steps:
