1. THE AUSTRALIAN CHILD WELL-BEING PROJECT LAUNCH Australian Research Alliance on Children and Youth (ARACY) Canberra February 25th 2016

2.  Complained about this a life-time ago in a keynote at the ACWA 2008 conference in Sydney  ARACY sought to fill gap with a Report Card  UNICEF Innocenti RC7 (2007) Australia  13/24 on child poverty,  15/25 on child health,  7/25 on education  UNICEF Innocenti RC11 (2013) Australia excluded from because of missing data but  6/35 on child poverty,  22/35 on child health,  22/35 on education and  1/35 on housing/environment.  Not able to compare relationships, satisfaction with health/school/life, behaviour.

3.  Health Behaviour of School Aged children. 11,13 and 15 every four years. Latest 2013/14. 41 countries http://www.hbsc.org/  Children’s Worlds latest 2014 16 countries http://www.isciweb.org/  Also EU SILC 28 countries  Australia in:  PISA survey  OECD/UNDP/World Bank/IMF/WHO series

5.  HBSC  Life satisfaction  Subjective health  Index of health complaints (mental health)  Going to bed hungry  Smoking  Drinking  Pressure of school work  Number of friends  Children’s Worlds  Family structures  Activities (housework and caring)

6. 11-1213-14

7. Mean scores% scores in the tail

8. 11-1213-14

9. 11-12

10. 13-14

11. 11-1213-14

12. BoysGirls

13. Regularly sleeping in a second home Family types

14. Helps with houseworkCares for family

15.  Tricky to compare results across different surveys  Still missing comparisons eg  Relationships  Bullying and violence  Safety  Australia should join HBSC and Children’s Worlds  UNICEF RC13 on inequalities in child well-being Australia  2/35 life satisfaction,  14/25 income,  24/35 education,  27/35 health  We cannot tell how good or bad we are or could be without comparison