A growing body of evidence shows mental ill-health from climate change impacts has grown in recent years, with children and young people among those most at risk. To successfully address climate mental health impacts, action is required at multiple levels – individual, organisational and local community as well as state and national policy.

The anticipated consequences of climate change range from a gradual to a catastrophic impact on the environment, ecology, economy and society. While people continue to care about climate change, a social malaise with environmentalism has emerged. The challenge for governments is to develop green policies that make decarbonisation affordable and to highlight its vital benefits.

This paper reviews the outcomes of the 2025 federal election, the major party positions and how the electorate voted on climate and energy policies. It finds that a steep swing towards the ALP represents a resounding endorsement of Australia’s current plan for renewable power.

Climate change already threatens many people’s greatest asset, their home. This report identifies the suburbs and electorates across Australia where households and businesses face the most acute risk from climate-fuelled extreme weather events in 2025, and reveals the types of hazards that are driving this escalating risk.

An assessment of the track records and promises of the major parties and key cross-benchers in relation to climate policy. The report concludes that the Labor Party has a credible plan to cut climate pollution, while the Federal Coalition is proposing policies that will worsen climate impacts.