Volume 223 Issue 9 Supplement · 3 November 2025
Future Healthy Countdown 2030: learning and employment pathways for healthy children and young people
Addressing the unnatural divide: why health and education are the necessary foundations of equitable child outcomes
By investing in children and young people’s wellbeing, strengthening schools, engaging children and young people themselves, and supporting families, we can shift the trajectory from disadvantage to opportunity. Every step we take now will echo across generations
Pasi Sahlberg · Angelica Ojinnaka‐Psillakis · Sharon R Goldfeld
The First Future Healthy Countdown 2030 progress report: tracking Australian children and young people’s health and wellbeing to drive accountability
Australia has the means to ensure that children and young people can thrive. We are in a critical period, and failure to act risks leaving a generation behind
Georgie Frykberg · Angelica Ojinnaka‐Psillakis · Planning Saw · Kevin Kapeke · Cham Kim · Amie Furlong · Susan Maury · Anna M H Price · Peter D Sly · Taylor Dee Hawkins · Khalid Muse · Pasi Sahlberg · Prue Warrilow · Fiona J Stanley · Jordan Cory · Carolyn Wallace · Adam Valvasori · Ngiare Brown · Craig A Olsson · Yichao Wang · Sharon R Goldfeld · Rosemary Calder · Kate Lycett
What fully funded public schools could do
The promise of equity will be realised not through rhetoric, but through bold, deliberate and sustained action
Pasi Sahlberg · Trevor Cobbold
Early childhood learning for lifelong health impact
The lessons of early literacy reform show that strong evidence, when acted upon, drives better outcomes. By bringing together rapid ECEC reforms with unique, embedded cohorts (GenV and ORIGINS), Australia offers a globally unprecedented opportunity to unite rigorous early education and health research and practice at scale for lasting child wellbeing and population health
Melissa Wake · Jon Quach · Jacqueline Davis
Early childhood learning for lifelong health impact
The lessons of early literacy reform show that strong evidence, when acted upon, drives better outcomes. By bringing together rapid ECEC reforms with unique, embedded cohorts (GenV and ORIGINS), Australia offers a globally unprecedented opportunity to unite rigorous early education and health research and practice at scale for lasting child wellbeing and population health
Melissa Wake · Jon Quach · Jacqueline Davis
Sharing custodianship of learning: development of an Indigenous Nation‐led learning charter model centring self‐determination and wellbeing
The Indigenous Nation-led learning charter sets the aspirations for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander learners learning on a specific Country. It provides guidance and leadership in partnership with schools that centres First Nations learners
Hayley McQuire · Melinda Mann
The power of recognising more: a qualitative study of young people’s perspectives on broader recognition for learning and wellbeing
Redefining success in education to include recognition of broader learning — shaped by learners and their contexts — can enhance engagement, improve outcomes, disrupt disadvantage, and support more equitable systems that promote wellbeing and lifelong learning
Charlie Connell‐Tobin · Linh Dang · Mietta Symmons‐Joyce · Annette C Cairnduff · Andrew PR Kellett · Lauren Langley · Philippa Collin
Widening the lens of the social and commercial determinants of health
Elizabeth Zuccala
Dousing the burning inequity of global warming for people experiencing homelessness
Timothy English · Alejandro Vásquez Hernández · Glenn Miller · Nuala Fogarty · Charles Cosgrove · Paul Rosenthal · Matthew Larkin · Jon Swain · Danielle Austin · Jo River
Homelessness and cancer care: a missing priority in the Australian Cancer Plan
Amy Stearn · Jennifer A Baldock · Julia N Morris · Joanne Flavel · Fran Baum
Adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in Australia: how its current commercial model for diagnosis and treatment is encouraging misdiagnosis
Richard CJ Bradlow · Ferghal Armstrong · Edward Ogden
The importance of universal child and family health services for equitable early development
Anna MH Price · Elodie O’Connor · Sharon R Goldfeld
From words to action: time for Australia to take shared decision making implementation seriously
For the Australian Shared Decision Making Research Network