Kelvin Thomson (Wills, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs, in writing, on 28 October 2014:

(1) Is she aware (a) that in 2015 the United Nations is scheduled to announce the Sustainable Development Goals, a set of international objectives to improve global well-being, and (b) that the French Government's 2008 Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress concluded that GDP is dangerously inadequate as a measure of quality of life, and (c) of 'The Future We Want', the declaration of the 2012 Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development agreed to by all United Nations Member States, which reached the same conclusion.

(2) What action is the Australian Government taking to assist in (a) the development of the Sustainable Development Goals, and (b) providing broader indicators of social performance than GDP.

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