04/12/2025
One week ago, Parliament House came alive with our inaugural Social Health Summit, the first ever held in Australia. Over 250 health workers, community organisers, artists, and social innovators came together to reimagine the future of mental health and wellbeing.
With 1 in 3 Australians lonely each week, the message was clear across every speaker: services matter, but they’re not enough. Australia needs a social-health approach. That means rebuilding the places, relationships, and everyday rituals that hold communities together long before crisis hits.
Art is health.
Connection is prevention.
In this revolution, we dance.
And you can come dancing too.
Highlights of the day included:
- ARIA winner Holiday performing Dancing2 with Choir & ;
- Our wonderful Parliamentary Friendship Group Co-Chairs, .spender and – with 38 other MPs from all parties + Independents also taking time out of the busiest sitting day on record to join us (including wonderful and who are powerful social health advocates!)
- Our Panel - “What does a socially healthy future look like?” with , , Karen Li of , and moderated by ;
- Lightning talks from , , , , , , .
- The wonderful joy and colour of Scrubs!
Day 1 embodied the positive, solution-oriented movement we are building.
Highlights from the rest of the summit coming soon!
