Despite what you’ve read, Jim Chalmers’s wellbeing framework hasn’t been shelved – if anything, it’s been strengthened
- Written by Warwick Smith, Honorary Fellow, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne
Reports in The Australian suggesting Treasurer Jim Chalmers has shelved his budget wellbeing framework, known as Measuring What Matters, are incorrect.
The framework is alive and well, and making steady (if slow) progress.
Also reported was the Coalition’s intention to scrap the framework if it wins the next election, with its treasury...