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What Do Australians Really Think About the Early Years?

Online Webinar

Thursday, 3 September 2026: 10 am – 11 am AEST

ARACY and the FrameWorks Institute invite you to explore the latest findings from Measuring Early Years Mindsets: Patterns of Thinking That Shape Australia’s Future.

Join Dr Nat Kendall-Taylor, CEO of the FrameWorks Institute, and Melodie Potts Rosevear OAM, CEO of ARACY, as they unpack the findings and explore how strategic framing can help shift conversations towards shared responsibility, systems-based solutions and the collective action needed to support children, families and communities across Australia.

This report is part of a multi-year Measuring Early Mindsets Project undertaken by the FrameWorks Institute, in partnership with the Minderoo Foundation and Curijo. 

Drawing on a nationally representative 2026 survey, alongside earlier qualitative research, Listening to Mindsets: Cultural Mindsets of Early Childhood in Australia, it gives us a clear picture of how Australians think about the early years and begins to identify the important connections between mindsets and people’s demand for policy change and solutions.

What You’ll Learn

  • How Australians think about early childhood and related issues
  • How certain mindsets are endorsed across groups while others vary in strength
  • How mindsets can help boost support for policy change and reform.
  • How mindsets interrelate and form ‘clusters’
  • Initial insights on how to activate productive mindsets and reframe communications to build support for policy and systems change in Australia
  • What’s next in the research to track early years mindsets in Australia.

Meet your speakers

  • Nat Kendall-Taylor – Chief Executive Officer at the FrameWorks Institute
  • Melodie Potts Rosevear OAM – CEO, ARACY

Click on the images below for the full speaker bios.

Nat Kendall-Taylor

Melodie Potts-Rosevear OAM

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The webinar will also be recorded if you can’t make it on the day.

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Melodie Potts Rosevear OAM

Chief Executive Officer

Melodie is a respected social impact leader with more than 25 years working across government, philanthropy, communities and the non-profit sector, improving outcomes for children and young people.  

As the founding CEO of Teach For Australia, she took the organisation from startup to national scale and impact, shifting teacher education system policies and practices and enabling nearly 2,000 individuals to become teachers and future educational leaders. Over 85% of TFA alumni remain working in the education system. Previously, Melodie worked on the founding team at the Cape York Institute, helping drive its early work in community-led reforms to welfare and education policy. In her time at the Boston Consulting Group, she supported community-led design consultations and built an evidence base to inform major reforms to an urban Atlanta school district. 

Melodie holds a Master of Public Policy with distinction from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where she was a Kennedy Scholar and received a Rising Star alumni award, and a Bachelor of Economics from the University of North Carolina, where she was a Morehead Scholar. Melodie was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for her contribution to education and is passionate about ensuring every child has the chance to thrive.