Transforming Australia – A better Australia for Future Generations
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are not just a global framework; they are essential for Australia’s future. Adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, the SDGs help us address critical challenges such as cost-of-living pressures, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, and sustainable growth, promoting a resilient, inclusive future for all Australians.
How is Australia faring? What do we need to change? How much do we need to invest?
Our research, the Transforming Australia SDG Progress Report 2024 assesses Australia’s progress against 80 SDG targets, analyses key trends, and explores the pathways needed to achieve the SDGs by 2030 and 2050.
Australia’s performance on the SDGs is mixed. We need to keep pushing in areas that are seeing improvements, like energy, infrastructure and climate, and lift ambition where we’re falling behind, such as poverty and inequality.
The SDGs are complementary – policies, changes and reforms for one area can benefit multiple SDGs. With the right policy settings we can achieve most of the SDGs including our net zero ambitions by 2050, halving poverty, and growing GDP above business as usual.
Join us at the Transforming Australia Forum to hear about the latest data, insights, and policy ideas from the following speakers:
- Professor John Thwaites AM, Professorial Fellow, Monash University, and Chair of the Monash Sustainable Development Institute
- Dr Cameron Allen, interdisciplinary sustainability scientist, Senior Research and DECRA Fellow at Monash Sustainable Development Institute
- Taylor Hawkins, Co-founder and Managing Director at Foundations for Tomorrow; a youth-driven non-profit committed to renewing Australia’s leadership, decision-making and governance approaches.
- Uncle Wally Bell, Ngunawal Traditional Custodian to deliver a Ngunawal Rite of Passage. Wally Bell is a Ngunawal man and a member of the Yharr clan group from the Yass area.
