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What is Real Wellbeing?

Signs of hope: Australians report a small wellbeing boost for 2025

Australians recorded small increases in personal and national wellbeing for 2025 despite ongoing challenges, pointing to the power of homeostasis and resilience.

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What is Real Wellbeing?

The secret to a balanced life

Balancing life’s priorities is an ongoing struggle. But is there a formula that can help you achieve Real Wellbeing?

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What is Real Wellbeing?

Australia’s electorate-based divide: How wellbeing varies across the country

This year’s Australian Unity Wellbeing Index mapped wellbeing across electorates, showing surprising geographic divides across the country.

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Under 35 and feeling lonely? You’re not alone

Australian Unity Wellbeing Index research revealed that people under 35 feel lonelier than ever. Our experts unpack the results.

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How cost-of-living pressures are impacting on our wellbeing

The Australian Unity Wellbeing Index has consistently shown that income has a clear impact on our wellbeing. But as cost-of-living pressures continue to mount, that relationship is changing.

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Wellbeing in a time of crisis

Australians’ wellbeing has faced unprecedented challenges over the past few years. But the latest Australian Unity Wellbeing Index research shows we’re not out of the woods just yet.

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Income, cost of living and a wellbeing economy

The latest Australian Unity Wellbeing Index research shows that cost-of-living pressures and a turbulent economy are starting to have an impact on our wellbeing.

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Unprecedented challenges for our wellbeing

Our wellbeing is usually very resilient—but the latest research from the Australian Unity Wellbeing Index shows drops across a number of measures. So what does this tell us?

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What is Real Wellbeing?

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Australia’s marginalised

The latest Australian Unity Wellbeing Index has found that the pandemic had a surprisingly positive impact on some of our most marginalised groups.

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How the pandemic affected our health

In 2021, Australians’ satisfaction with their health fell for the first time in the Australian Unity Wellbeing Index’s 20-year history.

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How illness affects our wellbeing

The relationship between physical or mental ill health and wellbeing isn’t as clear-cut as you might think. Here’s why.

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