2020 Summit

Australian Government

The Australia 2020 Summit was held on 19 and 20 April 2008 at Parliament House in Canberra, bringing together 1,000 participants from across the nation and generating more than 900 ideas. The Summit was an initiative aimed at harnessing the best ideas for building a modern Australia ready for the challenges of the 21st century.  

http://www.australia2020.gov.au/

- Maximising wealth, excellence and equity by driving up productivity to the leading edge of developed countries

- Focusing on human capital through early childhood development, world-class education, skills formation and innovation

- Encouraging all Australians to realise their potential

- Set national economic goals in which all Australians share, including full employment, low inflation (averaging between 2 and 3 per cent) and gross domestic product per capita in the top five countries in the world

- Set time bound targets and be on track to dramatically decrease our ecological footprint while continuing to grow our economy and improve our quality of life

- Foster food security and the future sustainability and productivity of remote, rural and regional Australia by building on strengths and contributions of our remote, rural and regional communities; develop efficient provision of infrastructure and services outside our cities

- By 2020 we will have achieved a healthier lifestyle, through universal access to a clever wellness-focused evidence-based system with due regard to the environment in which we live

- By 2020 Australia is known throughout the world for its diverse, compassionate, fair and respectful society.

- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have the same health, legal education and economic participation opportunities and outcomes as other Australians, are able to realise their hopes and aspirations and are affirmed in their cultural identity;  take measures to nurture Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth and children

- Achieve effective protection of rights in Australia and encourage the exercise of responsibilities; modernise the federation; recognition of Indigenous Australians and appropriate constitutional change; rigorously accountable and open government, and a strong and independent media; an engaged third sector and civil society taking an active part in governance; open and free access to government information

- Develop an integrated understanding of human security challenges, including resource security, human and labour rights, terrorism, community sustainability, inequality and poverty; greater integration with our region; Re-prioritisation and re-balancing of diplomacy; Australia knows its place, understands the common ‘wealth’, and uses wellbeing indicators, not just poverty.

- By 2020 we will have achieved a healthier lifestyle, through universal access to a clever wellness-focused evidence-based system with due regard to the environment in which we live

- By 2020 Australia is known throughout the world for its diverse, compassionate, fair and respectful society.

- Achieve effective protection of rights in Australia and encourage the exercise of responsibilities; modernise the federation; recognition of Indigenous Australians and appropriate constitutional change; rigorously accountable and open government, and a strong and independent media; an engaged third sector and civil society taking an active part in governance; open and free access to government information

- Maximising wealth, excellence and equity by driving up productivity to the leading edge of developed countries

- Set national economic goals in which all Australians share, including full employment, low inflation (averaging between 2 and 3 per cent) and gross domestic product per capita in the top five countries in the world

- Set time bound targets and be on track to dramatically decrease our ecological footprint while continuing to grow our economy and improve our quality of life

- Encouraging all Australians to realise their potential

- Foster food security and the future sustainability and productivity of remote, rural and regional Australia by building on strengths and contributions of our remote, rural and regional communities; develop efficient provision of infrastructure and services outside our cities

- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have the same health, legal education and economic participation opportunities and outcomes as other Australians, are able to realise their hopes and aspirations and are affirmed in their cultural identity;  take measures to nurture Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth and children

- Develop an integrated understanding of human security challenges, including resource security, human and labour rights, terrorism, community sustainability, inequality and poverty; greater integration with our region; Re-prioritisation and re-balancing of diplomacy; Australia knows its place, understands the common ‘wealth’, and uses wellbeing indicators, not just poverty.