The Australian Government established the Measuring What Matters framework in 2023. Treasury has continuing responsibility for its management, including the selection of indicators and metrics, and embedding the framework in decision-making.

In 2024, responsibility for reporting annual updates of the dashboard transferred from Treasury to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). This 2025 update is the second annual update published by the ABS.

Measuring What Matters tracks progress towards a more healthy, secure, sustainable, cohesive and prosperous Australia.

Wellbeing frameworks are used internationally to report on progress in an integrated way, moving ‘beyond GDP’.

The 2025 dashboard includes data updates to 44 of 50 indicator pages, with headline metrics updated in 35 of these. Where possible, for indicators with no updates to headline metrics in the 2025 dashboard report, supplementary information has been included to provide contemporary context.

From 2026, the expanded General Social Survey will increase the number of indicators and metrics updated annually.

Released 15/09/2025