For a link to the report click here.
Is it stating the obvious that government should articulate how it intends to serve the interests of those it represents. And that the government’s role should embrace interests that stretch beyond the purely fiscal, to concerns of the wellbeing of relationships at home and in the broader community, to protecting the beauty of our natural surrounds, to providing quality education and healthcare for our children and theirs?
This report demonstrates the crucial importance for governments to better integrate social and environmental outcomes into policymaking, in addition to the well-accepted economic ones.
Media covearge (see below) has been broad in the Sydney Morning Herald. We expect that other media may still pick it up, particularly given the reports timely arrival with elections imminent in the UK and Australia.
26 September
News by Matt Wade Warning: Money Blinds Us to Broader Needs
News by Matt Wade Stop the treadmill we want to get off
Comment Relationships take a back seat in the mad dash for growth
Response to the report Opportunity the key to a strong economy… from Joe Hockey Australian Federal Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations
Response to the report … but financial success is no substitute for time from Lindsay Tanner, Australian Labor Party Shadow Minister for Finance
3 October
Opinon by Ross Gittins When the economy gets personal