Article on ACFP's Election 2025 report. Short-term promises being made by the major parties in the lead-up to the election offer nothing more than an illusion of security. When voting, think long term. Read the article to see why. 

Read the IA article here. 

Read or listen to the article on Substack here.

The Election 2025 Report assesses the commitment of the Liberal, Labor and Greens parties to the future safety and wellbeing of Australians. It shows that the policies of the Liberals and Labor will definitely drag Australia away from a better future. Those of the Greens will help Australia move towards it. 

Read the Election 2025 Assessment of Major Party Policies here.

The State of Australia 2025 contains a huge amount of facts and information Australians need as they approach the 2025 federal election. Insights into the findings of the report and the implications for our future are provided in this series of articles on Substack:

• Australians can now quickly review our nation's progress before selecting another parliament.​

• Australians now have an evidence based report on the state of the nation.

• The wellbeing and security of Australians is in decline.

• Australians are being locked into a poorer quality of life.

• The fate of the nation - what can we expect?

The State of Australia 2025 is ACFP's second major report on Australia's wellbeing, security and preparedness for the future. It provides detailed and summary results on our performance as a nation during the 47th parliament and over the last two decades in making a better Australia. This comprehensive, evidence-based review of progress on over 360 indicators of the state of Australia's society, environment, economy and democracy shows clearly that the dominant policies of the last ten years have let Australians down badly. Find out exactly how strong and healthy we are as a nation and get a sense of what we can reasonably expect in our future if current policy directions remain unchanged. Time is running short to build a future of wellbeing and security. 

Click here to read The State of Australia 2025.  

Australians need to build an entirely new Constitution - one that empowers Australians, not foreign monarchs.

Read the full article.

There is a sequence to success against the perils of war and climate change and it starts with acknowledging that the peoples of the world need to be empowered to play a far more effective and influential role in their own governance and to use that power to work more closely with those they elect to describe the society and future they want and build a plan of the safe paths towards it. Australia is in a position to demonstrate how that can be done.

Read the full article to find out how.

Find out about how Issue No. 8 of  Australia Together has been expanded to incorporate indicators of wellbeing from the federal government's Measuring What Matters wellbeing indicators framework. Australia Together now provides in one place all the data Australians need for a build a future of wellbeing and security. 

Read the Fact Sheet on the alignment of the two measurement frameworks.

Listen to all podcast interviews in the series:

• Episode 44: Australians can elect parliaments that work for them - with David and Bronwyn Kelly.

• Episode 45: Strategies for fixing Australia’s housing crisis - Bronwyn Kelly interviews Maiy Azize.

• Episode 46: Strategies for reforming Australia’s Constitution - with David and Bronwyn Kelly.

• Episode 47: Strategies for stopping climate change - Bronwyn Kelly interviews Julian Cribb.

• Episode 48: Strategies for achieving peace, security and independent defence of Australia - Bronwyn Kelly interviews Dr Alison Broinowski.

• Episode 49: Strategies for fairness in Australia including a National Accord on Wealth, Welfare and Wellbeing and a Universal Basic Income - Bronwyn Kelly interviews Dr John Tons.

• Episode 50: Strategies for electoral reform - with David and Bronwyn Kelly

Watch or listen to a conversation about how Australians can reform and revitalise their democracy by setting their own national agenda before they vote in elections. 

Listen here.

Watch here.

The National Accord on Wealth, Welfare and Wellbeing would provide Australians with a statement of the agreed principles which are to be adhered to by parliaments and governments when making budgetary and economic plans, laws, policies and decisions for the nation.

Read the fact sheet here.

Read about how Australia's democracy suffered two major blows in 2023 and how we must save it before it's too late.

Read the article here in Pearls and Irritations.

Read or listen to the full article here in The State of Australia Newsletter on Substack.

Read about how the trail of David McBride has unmasked a terrible situation for Australia's democracy. It would appear that our armed forces must act against the public interest if ordered to do so by our foreign sovereign or his or her Executive.

Read the abridged version here in Pearls and Irritations.

Read the full article here in The State of Australia Newsletter on Substack.

Listen to a reading here.

Listen to Episodes 40, 41, 42 & 43 of the Australia Together Podcast containing an audio recording of Bronwyn Kelly's four-part essay on Saving Australian Democracy and Sovereignty by Building a New Constitution

Listen to Episodes 40, 41, 42 & 43 here.

Read the full transcript here.

Read Bronwyn Kelly's answers to Questions on Notice from Senator Lidia Thorpe after Dr Kelly testimony before the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights in its Inquiry into Australia's Human Rights Framework.

Read the full response here.

Read Bronwyn Kelly's article on the occasion of the defeat of the referendum on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament. It was a very sad day for Australia but it may also be the start of  a journey towards a democracy of equals.

Read the full article here.

Listen to Dorothea Mackellar's iconic poem set to music here.

On 28 September 2023, ACFP's Founder Bronwyn Kelly spoke as a witness in the Parliamentary Inquiry into Australia's Human Rights Framework.

Read the full address and supporting material here.

Read about how constitutional enshrinement of human rights is essential if Australians are to ensure a better future for their kids in the age of climate change

Read the full article here.

Read about how Australians have expressed values that are compassionate, life-affirming and inclusive. 

Read the full article here.

The federal government has sought submissions on Australia's legal arrangements for human rights. ACFP has submitted a federal Human Rights Act is long overdue but it will not provide sufficient protection for the rights of Australians. Human rights can only be secured by constitutional enshrinement. .

Read the full submission here.

ACFP’s Founder Bronwyn Kelly is now on Substack with a newsletter on

The State of Australia. Subscribe for regular updates, articles, videos and podcasts at this link.

https://bronwynkelly.substack.com/

Read or listen to the first article here.

Read independent commentary by former University Lecturer in finance and Fellow of the Centre for Policy Development, Ian McAuley, in his Weekly Roundup column for Pearls and Irritations. In this Roundup article Ian summarises ACFP Founder Bronwyn Kelly's essay in reply to Jim Chalmers on Australia's economy. As McAuley says, Bronwyn "presents three dimensions of a people’s economy" and suggests how Australians might have conversations about this with Treasurer Chalmers.

Read Ian McAuley's article here.

Read about how we need a people's constitution if we want an Australia worth celebrating.

Read the full article in Pearls and Irritations here.

Read The People's Constitution here.

Read The People's Constitution on Kindle here.

Read Bronwyn Kelly's article in the Commonwealth Journal on Local Governance on National Integrated Planning & Reporting. This is the first peer reviewed journal to recognise the potential of National IP&R to help communities work with national governments to build a better future. Read the full article here.

The video (approx. 17 minutes) summarises the results of the Better Futures Commitment Index for Election 2022. The Index shows how much each of the three major parties - Liberal, Labor and the Greens - is committed to making the Vision for Australia Together a reality. View the video here to see the difference between the major parties in their commitment to the nation's better future. The difference is substantial. Read the full Election 2022 report here and make your own choice.

This is Part 2 of ACFP's video series summarising the findings of The State of Australia 2022. The focus here is on the impact of policies for women, gender diverse Australians, the natural environment, climate change, corruption, and foreign relations on our wellbeing and security as a nation. The results are not good. They show Australia is a nation in decline. But Part 2 also discusses Australia's strengths and how we can use those to reverse the trend of decline. View Part 2 of The State of Australia 2022 here (approx. 40 minutes)..

The fifth issue of the starting draft of Australia Together is available here. It adds 33 new Targets and Strategies to help Australia towards a better future by 2050 or sooner. Issue No. 5 brings the total Targets and Strategies for Australia Together to 265. This issue contains ambitious Strategies on preparedness for natural disasters, women's safety and equity, defence capability, reconciliation with First Nations and protection of democracy through equitable taxpayer funding of elections. View the full plan.

In this second part of Episode 2 in ACFP's video series, Snapshots from Australia Together, ACFP's Founder Bronwyn Kelly takes viewers through more of the Strategies in Australia Together that are necessary for an equitable recovery from the pandemic recession and for establishment of a new, sustainable economy - one fit for 21st century markets. It covers Strategies for:

• greater involvement by Australians in how public money is spent,

• institutional reforms for a new economy,

• a re-vitalised public sector,

• wider economy productivity gains, and

• restored fairness in how public funding is raised.

Watch Part 2 of Episode 2 here.

This article sets out four essential sets of strategies for a federal government to deal with climate change. None of them are about relying on technology to allow us to continue to use fossil fuels. We will never reach net zero with Scott Morrison's plan. His is not "the Australian way". Read the full article here. And find details of the Australia Together plan for fixing climate change here.

This article explains how the Murdoch media is attempting to perpetrate a new fraud on Australians about climate change. It also shows that the world needs to adopt a carbon emissions budget because we are perilously close to climate catastrophe. Read the full article here.

The COP26 meeting in Glasgow in November is a make-or-break meeting for climate change. Negotiators need a new framework to share responsibility fairly for keeping temperature rises below 1.5 degrees Celsius. And Australia needs to shift from being among the least cooperative nations to being a leader in stopping global heating. We can do this. Sign the petition here.  

Episode 2 of "What is National Integrated Planning & Reporting?" comes in three parts. In this first part we look at the origins of Integrated Planning & Reporting, introduce its eight elements and explain the first four elements:

1. Open genuine community engagement,

2. A Vision for Australia Together;

3. Safe Directions towards the Vision, and

4. Integrated Targets and Strategies.

See how these form the basis of a long term national plan that Australians can build together. View Episode 2, Part 1 here: 37 minutes.

In this third and final episode of "What is National Integrated Planning & Reporting?", Dr Kelly shows how we can get efficiencies and opportunities from long term integrated planning that we cannot get from any other activity within our election cycles and democratic processes.She sets out how it can help us rise above politics and set our own powerful agenda for the nation's future and she discusses why we should grab the opportunity of National Integrated Planning & Reporting before it's too late. View Episode 3 here: 51 minutes.

View the full article as it appeared in Pearls and Irritations. Hint: the secret is to get together and develop an inclusive, integrated plan for the nation we want to become and use it to instruct our politicians on what we want and how we prefer to get it. That plan is called "Australia Together".  Check out the starting draft of the plan here. 

View the full article as it appeared in Pearls and Irritations. Hint: the list of twelve things we can do to save quality journalism does not include the ACCC's ill-conceived News Media Bargaining Code. 

View Dr Kelly's speech to the Senate Economics Legislation Committee and the supporting kit. This legislation for a mandatory Code puts consumers and democracy last and media moguls first.

This videocast series covers twenty of the critical issues Australians need to solve before 2030 if we are to arrive safely in 2050. Click here to view Episode 4 Part 2 which covers Issue 10 - Fractious International Relations.

This videocast series covers twenty of the critical issues Australians need to solve before 2030 if we are to arrive safely in 2050. Click here to view Episode 4 Part 3 which covers Issue 11 - Corporate Irresponsibility.

This videocast series covers twenty of the critical issues Australians need to solve before 2030 if we are to arrive safely in 2050. Click here to view Episode 3 which covers Issue 6 - Our outmoded and failing Constitution; Issue 7 - Loss of rights, open governance and transparency; and Issue 8: Declining participation in democracy. 

Click here to view Episode 6 Part 2 which covers Australia's climate policy failures and our options for arriving safely in 2050 with minimal climate damage and the strongest possible economy.

Click here to view Episode 1 which outlines the top twenty issues Australia needs to resolve by 2030 if we are to arrive safely in 2050 with an acceptable degree of wellbeing and security.

Michael Lester interviews ACFP's Bronwyn Kelly on Radio Northern Beaches and for Pearls and Irritations about The State of Australia 2025 report.

Listen to the full interview here.

View the full report, The State of Australia 2025, here.​