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 well-being 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 well-being framework is an acknowledgement that the first well-being statement didn’t amount to a framework. Chalmers says he is “up for the necessary conversations” needed to ... (full story)