Decent work is a collective effort
Ensuring workers receive their fair share of their country’s wealth is a key concern of SDG 8, which aims to promote sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all.
Decent work, not there yet for Australian women
Women’s work – to turn the language of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 8 around – is indecent work. We can’t tackle ‘decent work for all’ without adopting a gender lens.
Transitioning to net zero emissions needs a new supply chain partnership
Some 20 million vehicles use Australian roads each year. Transport is the third highest greenhouse gas emitting sector in Australia, accounting for 19 percent of all national emissions.
Saving the planet requires decarbonising energy
Despite the uptake of renewable energy, greenhouse gas emissions continue to grow, driven by consumption and the world’s demand for economic growth.
Clean and secure water for everyone – an accounting story
Effective water supply management requires attention not only to geography and the weather. To achieve SDG 6, nations need to be able to answer a number of accounting questions.
Australia is meeting the education targets, but on the cheap
Across all four tiers of education Australia could be said to be meeting the SDG 4 target of providing quality education, however, we have done so by sweating legacy assets established over decades.
Inserting a gender lens into the public eye
Public transport systems are designed for “a-to-b” commuters, people tavelling from home to work and back. That is not how people with unpaid caregiving demands, which are still mostly shouldered by women in most societies, need to travel.
Women at work
Gender inequality in the home and at work are intertwined, impacting women across their entire lives. Globally, women perform more care work (both unpaid and paid) than men.
Transcendent not transactional: igniting global change one student at a time
Higher education has become very transactional. We must aim for transformational learning, conferring students not just with degrees but with the mindset and skills to enact global change, activating a contagious passion for lifelong learning.
Co-designing better educational futures
If we had to select a single word to encapsulate what higher education ought to embody in order to achieve these goals under SDG 4 by 2030, it would be 'connected'.
Uncharted waters, protecting the young from online harms
While we know young people are spending unprecedented amounts of time online, Australia is struggling to deliver a virtual ‘safety fence’ around online usage by adolescents.
Caring for the carers
The world’s health challenges are enormous. Ancient diseases such as malaria and TB continue to kill and debilitate millions of people every year and a new pathogen could, once more, shut down the world.