Agenda 2030: Australia’s Disappearing Development Goals

In 2015, the world coalesced around 17 goals for a socially and ecologically equitable world - the UN'S Sustainable Development Goals. The SDGS rank as humanity's most ambitious act ever; a necessarily complex and multi-faceted task. Yet many developed and developing nations around the world have internalised these goals and are marking their progress towards them. Yet Australia – both politically and socially – is largely silent on their importance. Why is Australia being left behind by the greatest social justice initiative our species has ever conceived?