Australians live longer, are happier in their jobs and trust each other more than they did two decades ago.
But more people are battling chronic disease, struggling to make ends meet and having bad experiences online.
There’s also less trust in government and more concern for the nation’s safety than there was 20 years ago.
These are some of the findings of the first national wellbeing framework which will continue to track how healthy, secure, sustainable, cohesive and prosperous Australia is.
It’s part of a push to measure economic success at a societal level as well as via the more traditional means of gross domestic product (GDP), employment, inflation and wages….