The Australian Parliamentary Group for Future Generations
A multi-partisan platform dedicated to embedding long-term thinking and intergenerational fairness into the heart of Australian governance.
The Australian Parliamentary Group for Future Generations, established in 2022, is a multi-partisan platform dedicated to embedding long-term thinking and intergenerational fairness into the heart of Australian governance.
Meet our co-chairs
Aligning efforts across Parliament for future generations
Integrating intergenerational thinking into today's policy landscape
The Group's mission is to align efforts across Parliament and diverse sectors, advocating for integrating intergenerational thinking and holistic well-being into today's policy frameworks. We deliver on this mission through four commitments.
Constructive dialogue
Championing conversations that bring Australia's long-term goals to the forefront of national policy.
Multi-partisan approach
Uniting different political views to enrich policy discussions with diverse perspectives.
Awareness and stewardship
Increasing public consciousness about our generational impact and responsibility towards future Australians.
Policy innovation
Encouraging strategies that manage long-term risks and enhance Australia's resilience.
Momentum is accelerating
When the Group was re-established in the 48th Parliament, it came together dramatically faster than it had the first time around. That acceleration reflects a growing cross-party appetite for long-term thinking, and the increasing recognition among Australia's political leaders that intergenerational fairness belongs at the centre of national governance.
Faster to build
Measured by the rate at which Members and Senators joined, the Group came together around 36 times faster in the 48th Parliament than in the 47th.
A fraction of the time to gain double the members
28 Members and Senators joined within about two and a half weeks of the 2025 federal election, compared with 12 founding members over nine months in the 47th Parliament.
Our progress to date
Launched February 2023. Year one: work with Co-Chairs and members to define a viable path for future generations policy in Australia. Four strategic priorities came out of that first year:
- Collaborative calls for action, helped found the Intergenerational Fairness Coalition
- Supporting existing initiatives, backed the Measuring What Matters Wellbeing Framework and the Climate Change Amendment (Duty of Care and Intergenerational Equity) Bill 2023
- Nurturing an ambitious vision, set the goal of an independent Commissioner for Future Generations, as introduced in Wales in 2015
- Investing in concurrent efforts, pursued a future generations Budget Statement and reform of the intergenerational report
The Intergenerational Fairness Coalition
Launched off the back of the Group in 2023 with 20+ member organisations, now grown to 35+.
Learn more →FFT served as Secretariat, keeping young people's voices central and aligned with the Intergenerational Fairness Coalition. Impact of convening the Group:
- Diverse stakeholder engagement, Parliamentarians, young leaders, advocates and experts co-designing systemic reform
- Platforming youth leadership, youth perspectives central to Parliamentary dialogues
- Legislative progress, advanced preparations for the Wellbeing of Future Generations Bill
- National and global alignment, connected to global movements including the Summit of the Future
- A vision for Australia's future, shared national visioning, setting the stage for long-term reform
- February, Co-Chairs Dr Sophie Scamps MP and Mrs Bridget Archer MP introduced the Wellbeing of Future Generations Bill to federal Parliament
- Post-election, Group re-established under a renewed co-chair team: Dr Sophie Scamps MP, Senator Maria Kovacic and Ms Ash Ambihaipahar MP
- September, inaugural meeting of the new Group, keynote from Dr Angela Jackson (Productivity Commission)
- November, launched the Discussion Paper on a National Conversation for the Australia We Want, keynote from Bernard Salt
The Wellbeing of Future Generations Bill (2025)
Championed by Co-Chairs Dr Sophie Scamps MP and Mrs Bridget Archer MP, introduced into federal Parliament on 10 February 2025.
Learn more →- Launch the National Conversation Development Lab, a collaborative design process to build a durable model for national dialogue
- Convened political, civil society, youth and First Nations voices to shape a genuinely inclusive national conversation process
The National Conversation Development Lab
A 12-month collaborative design process, convened by FFT with 80+ partner organisations, running community pilots June 2026–June 2027 to deliver a durable model ahead of the 2028 federal election.
Learn more →Moments from the Group's meetings
Let's build the foundations for Australia's future
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