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Australia’s first well-being framework is about to measure what matters
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 ... (full story)