In 2025 alone, Australian children lost an estimated 800,000 days of early learning due to climate-related closures of early childhood education and care services. Floods, bushfires, storms and extreme heat are already disrupting the services children rely on to learn, grow and thrive, and the impacts are not felt equally. Children in disadvantaged and climate-exposed […]
ARACY’s 2026–27 Budget Submission amplifies young people’s voices, urging the Australian Government to embed child and youth wellbeing across education, health, justice and social policy through nationally coordinated, prevention-focused reform. ARACY’s 2026–27 Budget Submission is grounded in what young people say is shaping their lives now. Insights from ARACY’s Young and Wise post–Federal Budget roundtable […]
ARACY’s youth justice submission outlines evidence-based recommendations for Federal, State and Territory Governments, that reframe youth justice as a child wellbeing issue and call for trauma-informed, prevention-focused, nationally coordinated reform. This submission sets out ARACY’s key recommendations for Federal, State and Territory Governments to drive a fundamental transformation of Australia’s youth justice system. Drawing on […]
