In this speech, delivered to the Trans-Tasman Business Circle Wellington, the Secretary to the Treasury discusses major economic transitions facing New Zealand, including globalisation, technological change, demographic change and environmental change.

Why do we find it so hard to direct mental health spending to the people who most need it?

The Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission has concluded a major statutory investigation into mental health discrimination by travel insurers. This report details the findings of the investigation and considers important steps insurers can take to comply with the law in future.

For those of us who aren’t policy wonks, the causal impression you could get of government and its enacting of public policy is one of continuous failure. In a new study, researchers have assembled twenty examples of public policy successes from Australia and New Zealand.

This paper aims to take a systems lens to mental health and wellbeing in Australia. In doing so, SVA's perspective recognises that enormous diversity exists in experiences of mental health and wellbeing, and conversely mental ill-health.