Article on how the new Labor government's focus on productivity is unlikely to lead to a fairer economy. There are other reforms that should take priority.

Read the Independent Australia article here. 

Read or listen to the article on Substack here.

Article on Malcolm Turnbull's forum at the National Press Club on sovereignty and security. Defence hawks used the forum to promote defence industries, regardless of the interests of Australians.

Read the IA article here. 

Read or listen to the article on Substack here.

Article about where voters might find  vision and hope in Australian politics. The Better Futures Commitment Index shows which policies will lead to a better future. 

Read the IA article here. 

Read or listen to the article on Substack here.

The State of Australia 2025 shows that Australia may be able to avoid the chaos evident in Trump's America, but we are running out of time. Find out how in this article. 

Read the IA article here. 

Read a full version here.

The Summary of The State of Australia 2025 provides Australians with quick and easy access to the facts and information they need about the their wellbeing and security as a nation in 2025. It provides insights into the results shown in the major report on The State of Australia 2025 released by ACFP on 12 February 2025, and indicates where readers can find the evidence on which the results are based. It is designed to help Australians quickly find out about how we are faring as a nation on the issues that are of most importance to them personally and to their communities. The report also highlights things we can do that will give us the best chance of arriving safely in the future we have described.

Click here to read the summary of  The State of Australia 2025.  

The focus in this series on the podcast is on achieving safety and security (financial, economic and personal) in an increasingly dangerous world. Listen to all episodes in the series:

• Episode 51: Talking about a Vision for a better future for everyone, with David and Bronwyn Kelly.

• Episode 52: Planning to secure our future before time runs out, with Professor Mark Beeson.

• Episode 53: The rights we need, with Julian Cribb.

• Episode 54: Restoring universal health care in Australia, with Ian McAuley.

• Episode 55: A National Accord on Wealth, Welfare and Wellbeing, with David and Bronwyn Kelly.

• Episode 56: A Universal Basic Income for all Australians, with David and Bronwyn Kelly.

• Episode 57: Strategies for peace and security in a multipolar world, with Allan Behm.

With the release of Issue No. 8 of Australia Together, ACFP launched a new series of articles and podcast episodes about what's in the latest Issue. The focus is on safety and security (financial, economic and personal) in an increasingly dangerous world.

Read the introductory article for the series here.

Listen to the first episode in the series: Episode 51 - Talking about a Vision for a better future for everyone.

Michael Lester interviews ACFP's Bronwyn Kelly on Radio Northern Beaches and for Pearls and Irritations about how a universal basic income or UBI can solve poverty and help Australians  build a truly fair and very productive national economy.

Listen to the full interview here.

A Universal Basic Income (UBI) would offer extraordinary benefits to Australians including elimination of poverty, reduction of inequality and creation of a solid basis for ongoing full employment. Find out how a UBI is easily affordable and can be implemented to maximise those benefits.

Read the full information sheet here.

Bronwyn Kelly interviews prominent science writer and researcher Julian Cribb on key strategies that we will need for dealing with the significant environmental disasters we are facing in the age of climate change. They discuss strategies for transitioning our current unsustainable agriculture systems to systems that create an endless, renewable food supply for everyone.

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Republished by Pearls and Irritations from the original Australia Together Podcast.

Listen to the full podcast here.

With the release of Issue No. 7 of Australia Together, ACFP's Founder Bronwyn Kelly launched a new series of articles and podcast episodes about what's in Australia Together and how it can help Australians select parliaments that will work in the public and national interest. 

Read the first article in the series here.

Listen to the podcast episode where David and Bronwyn Kelly discuss how this works.

In response to an invitation from the Voices of Ku-ring-gai, ACFP's Founder Bronwyn Kelly spoke about how Australians can build a plan to make their preferred future for their nation a reality. Watch the address to the Voices of Ku-ring-gai here.

Read more about how with the outcome of the prosecution of David McBride something has emerged about our Constitution that should give every Australian cause for serious concern, this being that the oath taken by both our armed forces and our parliamentarians is one which obliges them solely to be loyal to a foreign monarch, not to the Australian people.

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 the proposed five-year program of community led national collaboration to design a new Constitution - The Australian People's Constitution.

Read the proposed program here.

Find more information and updates here.

Listen to Episodes 37, 38 & 39 of the Australia Together Podcast containing an audio recording of the answers to Senator Thorpe's questions to Bronwyn Kelly. This also includes a detailed answer to a key question about democracy in Australia from the Chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, Mr Josh Burns MP.

Listen to Episodes 37, 38 & 39 here.

Read the full transcript here.

Listen to the full appearance of ACFP's Founder Bronwyn Kelly before the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights on 28 September 2023, in which she argued for the need to secure human rights in the Constitution. 

Listen to the full hearing and MPs responses on The Australia Together Podcast.

Listen to the interview to find out how Australia's democracy is failing us and how it can be revived. Thanks to Evelyn Santoro for this podcast.

Listen to the full interview here. 

Read about why Australia needs a Constitution that protects our human rights. It's now a matter of life and death.

Read the full article here.

Michael Lester interviews ACFP's Bronwyn Kelly, author of The People's Constitution, on Radio Northern Beaches about how constitutional enshrinement of an Indigenous Voice is a model for empowering all Australians. Michael praises the book as "ambitious, wonderful and thought provoking". The interview covers questions about the three major constitutional changes proposed in the book: Values, Rights and Voices.

Listen to the full interview here.

Read about how a Human Rights Act is desirable but that it will not suffice to protect the human rights of Australians. Nothing less than constitutional enshrinement of human rights will prevent their abuse by governments.

Click here for the summary of ACFP's submission to the Inquiry into Australia's Human Rights Framework.

The 2022 federal election was the first to be accompanied by an independent report on the performance of the outgoing 46th parliament in building a better Australia - The State of Australia 2022. Read about how at the 2025 election all Australians will have access to a report which gives them enough accurate data to hold the 47th parliament to account for any failure to support the national interest and to offer the incoming government an agenda capable of meeting that interest over the coming decade.  Read the full article.

Read ACFP's submission to the Defence Department's proposals for reform of defence legislation. The Department's "Guiding Principles for Reform" of defence laws run counter to the values of Australians. The review should be shelved in favour of a fully inclusive strategic planning process in which Australians can participate to define the nation’s strategic interests and acceptable paths towards the maintenance of those interests.

Read the full submission to Defence from ACFP here.

ACFP’s Founder Bronwyn Kelly discusses Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ commitment to hold conversations on the economy. She looks at how Australians can chime in and suggests that there are three important conversations that should be established between the government and Australians at large if we are to succeed as a nation in building the sort of economy the government wants – one that promotes inclusion, equality and the values of Australians.

Read the full essay here.

Listen to the full essay here on ACFP's YouTube podcasts.

Read ACFP's submission to Treasury's call for comment on what Australia should be measuring about its wellbeing. ACFP has introduced Treasury to the Australia Together National Wellbeing Index - a new way of measuring what matters most to Australians now and for the future. This is a very different measurement framework to the OECD framework preferred by Treasury which does not measure what is important to Australians. Read the full submission to Treasury from ACFP here.

The sixth issue of the starting draft of Australia Together is available here. It adds 7 new Targets and Strategies to help Australia towards a better future by 2050 or sooner. Issue No. 6 brings the total Targets and Strategies for Australia Together to 273. This issue contains ambitious Strategies on population control, humanitarian aid and women's health and safety . View the full plan.

This is Part 1 of ACFP's video series summarising the findings of The State of Australia 2022. The focus here is on the state of Australia's economy. The finding is that Australians are definitely not progressing towards the sort of economy they want, due to the failure of neoliberal economic policies that have prevailed in Australia since the Global Financial Crisis of 2008. Australians are moving towards the polar opposite of their preferred economy. View Part 1 of The State of Australia 2022 here (approx. 45 minutes).

​The State of Australia 2022 is a major new report on Australia's wellbeing, security and preparedness for the future at the end of the term of office of the 46th parliament of Australia. It provides detailed and summary results on our performance as a nation over the last two decades in making a better Australia. This comprehensive, evidence-based review 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 what we can do to get back on track towards the Australia we want. Click here to read The State of Australia 2022.  

This is Part 1 of Episode 2 in ACFP's video series, Snapshots from Australia Together. This series showcases suites of Targets and Strategies in Australia Together that deal with particular issues. This first Part focuses on Targets necessary for a new, strong, sustainable Australian economy and Strategies essential for an equitable recovery from the pandemic recession including Strategies for:

• an Accord on Wealth, Welfare and Wellbeing,

• reversal of neoliberalism, and for

• introduction of a social wage for all Australians.

Watch Part 1 of Episode 2 here.

The fourth issue of the starting draft of Australia Together is available here. It contains 12 new Targets and Strategies to help Australia towards a better future by 2050 or sooner. Issue No. 4 brings the total Targets and Strategies for Australia Together to over 230. This issue contains ambitious Strategies and Targets for economic reform and equality. View the full plan.

This open letter to the Prime Minister shows how the Morrison government still has an opportunity to lead Australia with decency. Read the Open Letter, including the petition demanding that Australia lead the world at COP26 to stop global heating.

This is Episode 1 in ACFP's new series, Snapshots from Australia Together. This series showcases suites of Targets and Strategies in Australia Together that deal with particular issues. This first episode focuses on Strategies to fix climate change. Watch the full episode here.

In this series ACFP explains how National IP&R works to help Australians build the most wonderful future. In Episode 1, we show:

• why National IP&R is necessary at this critical time in Australia,

• how it can help us organise our plans and tell leaders what we want, and

• how it is a game changer in the way power is shared in democracy.

By watching this series, Australians can begin to master this easy process for taking more control of our lives and futures and leaving a better world for future generations. View Episode 1 here: 30 minutes.

In this last part of Episode 2 of "What is National Integrated Planning & Reporting?", Dr Kelly explains the last three elements of National IP&R:

• Element No. 6 - open and transparent communication channels,

• Element No. 7 - the Australia Together National Wellbeing Index, and

• Element no. 8 - the End of Term Report.

These are the elements that allow us to integrate our Strategies so that they speed us safely to our preferred future. They are also key to our ability to:

• ​form a new social contract with future generations and with elected leaders, and

• hold governments to account for delivering what matters most to us in all our diversity.

View Episode 2, Part 3 here: 47 minutes.

The second issue of the starting draft of Australia Together is available here. It contains 21 new Targets and Strategies to help Australia towards a better future by 2050 or sooner. Issue No. 2 brings the total Targets and Strategies for Australia Together to over 200. View the full plan.

Read the starting draft of Australia's first long term national plan for a better society, environment, economy and democracy.

View ACFP's supplementary submission to the Senate Economics Legislation Committee. This News Media Bargaining Code can expose the Commonwealth to significant legal risk.

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 7 which covers Issue 17 on Australians' declining health and safety at home, Issue 18 on declining educational attainment , Issue 19 on the decline in our quality of life and social cohesion and Issue 20 on declining wellbeing and happiness.

View ACFP's written submission here. Find out how the media concentration in Australia can get worse under the ACCC's News Media Bargaining Code, how we can prevent this and how Australia can take world-leading role in community engagement for collaborative development of a regulatory framework for the information market in the digital age.  

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 1 which covers Issue 9 - Unethical governance.