Our environmental responses are often piecemeal and ineffective. Next week's wellbeing budget is a chance to act

  • Written by: Michael Vardon, Associate Professor at the Fenner School, Australian National University
Our environmental responses are often piecemeal and ineffective. Next week's wellbeing budget is a chance to actImage by Daniel Burkett from Pixabay , CC BY

Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ federal budget next week will for the first time include a section on wellbeing, which aims to measure how well Australians are doing in life.

The wellbeing budget will, among other things, assess the state of our natural places using a set of environmental indicators. But...

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