Understanding Liveability to Advance Quality of Life

Community views
joel-henry-zMZ40Rg3u1s-unsplash-1-sm-1755771603
Daniel  Evans

Daniel Evans

Head of Sales & Retention (Gov.)

Key Highlights

  • Australia is embracing broader measures of prosperity, focusing on community wellbeing as a central component of progress.
  • The article outlines four critical considerations for enhancing liveability: adopting a resident-centric approach, analyzing data at appropriately small geographic areas, comparing for contextual understanding, and monitoring for impact
  • The 'Living in Place' community survey is introduced as a tool to capture residents' values and experiences, providing actionable insights for local governments.
  • Understanding and prioritizing residents' views are emphasized as essential for advancing quality of life and informing effective policy decisions.

Australia, like many peer nations, has woken up to the fact that we need to understand and measure prosperity in terms broader than GDP. Our leadership – political, social, corporate – is demonstrating this shift by placing more emphasis on community wellbeing in decision making.

And, while previous generations may have seen investment in wellbeing as being in conflict with traditional economic measures of progress, contemporary sentiment acknowledges that such things work better in concert.

Liveability is a central pillar of the wellbeing movement and our latest ebook Understanding Liveability to Advance Quality of Life outlines four things that we believe are important considerations for policy makers who are seeking to make a contribution in this space:

  • a resident centric approach
  • studied at sensibly small area geographies
  • comparing for context
  • monitoring for impact

This ebook has been published in support of our latest offer into local government, Living in Place.

STAY INFORMED

Subscribe to monthly updates