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Matthew Fuller-Tyszkiewicz

Report

Australians’ subjective wellbeing across federal electorates in 2025

Craig Olsson, Delyse Hutchinson, Kate Lycett

The Australian Unity Wellbeing Index is the nation’s longest-running study of subjective wellbeing. The 2025 survey captured responses from more than 10,000 adults across Australia. The report maps wellbeing across all federal electorates, revealing new insights into how location, income, age and social factors shape Australians’ quality of life.
Report

Australians’ subjective wellbeing in 2024: the housing and financial divide from ‘boomers’ to ‘zoomers’

Craig A. Olsson, Delyse Hutchinson, Kate Lycett

The Australian Unity Wellbeing Index monitors the subjective wellbeing of over 2,000 Australian adults. This year’s results show Australian's satisfaction with life has hit an all-time low. Satisfaction with health also slumped to an unprecedented low. Personal wellbeing scores and satisfaction with life “as a whole” both continue to remain very low.
Evaluation

Evaluation of the Eating Disorders Medicare Benefit Schedule items

Cathrine Mihalopoulos, Phillipa Hay, Genevieve Pepin, Tracey Wade, Long Khanh, Dao Le, Deborah Mitchison, Susan Hart, Jaclyn Broadbent, Linda Byrne, Hannah Jarman, Alexandra Aulich, Jeanette Chan, Miranda Chilver, Caitlin Clague, Georgia Craigie, Brooke Donnelly, Jacqui Edwards, Natasha Hall, Catherine Johnson, Lyndal Kilgannon, Claudia Liu, Courtney McLean, Alemayehu Mekonnen, Madelon North, Rebecca Sheils, Andrew Tan

This process and outcome evaluation of the Eating Disorders Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) items aimed to understand if it is meeting the needs of those delivering and receiving the services. It found people who had received treatment reported significantly lower levels of eating disorder symptoms after treatment. Wholesale retention of the current items is recommended.
Report

Australians' subjective wellbeing in 2022: climate change, mental distress, mood and social connection

Craig A. Olsson, Delyse Hutchinson

This report, detailing survey data collected in May 2022, found Australia’s subjective wellbeing declined across all measures as the country faces a polycrisis of cost-of-living pressures, climate change and global uncertainty, amidst an ongoing health pandemic. This marks the first time in over a decade that such a consistent downtrend has been observed across all...
Report

The wellbeing of Australians: federal electoral divisions, homeostatically protected mood and relationship support


This report presents findings from Report 33.0 of the Australian Unity Wellbeing Index (AUWI), an annual measure of Australians’ perception and satisfaction with their life in Australia.

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