Australia is getting a wellbeing budget. What is that?
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How Can a Budget Go Beyond Economics?
The idea that a budget should go beyond economics, and we should really be thinking about the well-being of people in any particular country. We've seen it in other places like New Zealand and Scotland, but can you tell me where it comes from? And how did we first start to hear about well-being in the context of the economy? Chalmers was a staffer at the time in which this approach was being used by treasury is working for the then-treasure Wayne Swancer.
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