What happens when we stop planning for communities and start listening to them instead?

What if some of a community’s greatest strengths can’t be captured in a survey, a spreadsheet – or even a map?

How can we move beyond mapping what exists to designing the futures our communities need?

What if the very first question we ask determines everything that follows?

What is asset mapping and why is it time to rethink it?

In this final episode, we explore what it means to be colonisers on colonised lands.

Saying an Acknowledgement in our mother languages inspires us to learn more about First Nations histories and cultures.

How are languages that have been dormant being revived by First Nations peoples?

How has English dominance marginalised First Nations knowledges?

What does embracing multilingualism sound like?

What happens when we say an Acknowledgement of Country in our mother languages?

Around 350 languages are spoken in homes across Australia, yet we see ourselves as an English-speaking country.

Life’s Lottery is changing.

Jeni Whalan hosts a discussion on the recent commitments from both NSW and Victoria to deliver a year of universal play-based learning for children in the year before they start school.

In this bonus episode, hosts Jeni Whalan and Glyn Davis examine the insights gained across this season of conversations about putting children at the centre of good public policy.

‘Never again’ were words that echoed around the world in the wake of the second world war.

First Nations children in Australia are some of the most disadvantaged and disenfranchised in our society. But they’re also on a journey of discovery, healing and strength through culture in response to the devastating impact of colonisation.

We know what children need in their first five years to develop to their full potential, so why isn’t action around this at the top of the national agenda?

The first five years of a child’s life are crucial for developmental outcomes and long term health. Paediatrician and leading child health researcher, Professor Sharon Goldfeld, argues we need a radical redesign of how families can be best supported during a child’s early years.

We debrief the 2022 Federal Budget to explore how children are reflected in the national economic plan.

We live in a wealthy nation but the experiences of Australian children are diverse, with many experiencing real challenges in their everyday lives. Two years into the pandemic, there are strong concerns about the impact on kids and the cost to their wellbeing, especially for those who were already behind.

In season 2 of Life’s Lottery we explore how we can best support and back children through better policy making and public investment.

If we want to inform better public policy to end poverty and disadvantage, hard data and facts are more important than ever.

No major social problem has a single cause so why would a single approach or organisation be able to solve it? Collective Impact starts with social objectives that are agreed upon across all sectors of society.

Most people in jail have experienced disadvantage at some point in their lives, and it’s a legacy that often passes from parent to child.

We examine systems change and possibility thinking with a leader in the field.

Australians believe our country is the land of the fair go. A meritocracy where if you work hard you can be successful, no matter what circumstances you were born into. But how true is this? Is intelligence and hard work really enough to break out of a cycle of disadvantage?

Birth is a throw of the dice. The consequences can last a lifetime. A child born into disadvantage today will struggle to break out in adulthood – no matter how hard they work.