Every statement and vote
The full record: every substantive statement voted on in the Policy Lab — three test entries and eight moderator-removed statements (mostly duplicates, each seen by at most two voters) are excluded from this table but flagged in the CSV — with room-wide tallies and each group's agree rate. Sort and filter, or just read — the table works without JavaScript too.
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| # | Statement | Agree | Disagree | Pass | A agree | B agree | C agree |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The most effective arts and health work happening right now depends on individual relationships, not formal agreements. seed | 43 | 14 | 15 | 55% | 57% | 70% |
| 2 | We already have enough good local examples in Australia to justify scaling without running more pilots. seed | 56 | 8 | 7 | 90% | 48% | 95% |
| 3 | Community organisations are currently delivering health outcomes they are neither funded nor recognised for. seed | 59 | 1 | 10 | 86% | 76% | 90% |
| 4 | The most promising work in this space is happening outside the health system, not within it. seed | 40 | 16 | 15 | 58% | 45% | 65% |
| 5 | The portfolio that pays for the intervention is almost never the one that sees the benefit. seed | 25 | 25 | 19 | 30% | 32% | 50% |
| 6 | There is already enough money in the system, it's just in the wrong places. seed | 42 | 14 | 13 | 67% | 45% | 68% |
| 7 | This work will not scale without new, dedicated funding. seed | 47 | 12 | 9 | 76% | 55% | 74% |
| 8 | Short funding cycles are the single biggest barrier to this work right now. seed | 46 | 13 | 9 | 80% | 26% | 89% |
| 9 | Philanthropy is currently funding work that the government should be paying for. seed | 42 | 14 | 13 | 57% | 35% | 95% |
| 10 | We have enough evidence — the barrier is political will, not proof. seed | 52 | 7 | 8 | 96% | 52% | 78% |
| 11 | The evidence base is still too weak to justify major health system investment. seed | 10 | 52 | 7 | 3% | 40% | 5% |
| 12 | Current measurement frameworks cannot capture the value this work creates. seed | 47 | 12 | 9 | 63% | 65% | 83% |
| 13 | Social prescribing, neighbourhood health or other connections between clinical care and arts and cultural outlets are still treated as a nice-to-have rather than core health infrastructure. seed | 64 | 2 | 3 | 97% | 79% | 100% |
| 14 | Framing arts and culture primarily in health terms risks damaging the arts sector. seed | 30 | 24 | 15 | 13% | 65% | 68% |
| 15 | Clinicians currently see connecting people with things outside of health care as extra work rather than part of their job. seed | 47 | 8 | 13 | 59% | 60% | 95% |
| 16 | Health services genuinely want to connect people to community activities but don't know how. seed | 41 | 11 | 17 | 63% | 55% | 58% |
| 17 | Community organisations are already at capacity and could not absorb more referrals tomorrow. seed | 28 | 20 | 20 | 34% | 35% | 58% |
| 18 | The communities that would benefit most currently have the fewest of these assets. seed | 43 | 11 | 13 | 69% | 55% | 67% |
| 19 | Philanthropy is better placed than government to fund the innovative and experimental. seed | 24 | 36 | 11 | 19% | 43% | 47% |
| 20 | The bridges and mechanisms that connect health and the arts are the missing infrastructure, not more programs. seed | 57 | 3 | 9 | 84% | 80% | 83% |
| 21 | Loneliness and disconnection are now bigger drivers of poor health in my community than any clinical factor. seed | 43 | 5 | 21 | 67% | 37% | 80% |
| 22 | I've seen the benefits of joined-up thinking land in one part of the system, while funding and credit stay with the old model. seed | 41 | 5 | 23 | 73% | 43% | 56% |
| 23 | In my experience, there's little reward for working across silos — the incentives all point back to staying in your lane. seed | 37 | 26 | 6 | 47% | 45% | 74% |
| 24 | The people who inspire me most in this field work outside the mainstream, and their stories rarely get told. seed | 38 | 11 | 22 | 57% | 29% | 75% |
| 25 | My own breakthroughs have only come from breaking the rules, not following them. seed | 25 | 28 | 17 | 30% | 15% | 65% |
| 27 | Arts and culture shouldn't have to compensate for a health system that ignores the whole person. seed | 39 | 19 | 10 | 38% | 60% | 84% |
| 28 | Funding for arts-based health programs should come from health budgets, not arts budgets. seed | 31 | 20 | 17 | 43% | 29% | 68% |
| 29 | I don't believe arts and culture make a measurable difference to health outcomes. seed | 1 | 66 | 2 | 3% | 0% | 0% |
| 30 | In my experience, health services treat creative therapies as a "nice to have," not real care. seed | 51 | 6 | 10 | 75% | 75% | 79% |
| 31 | The barriers people face accessing arts and culture for wellbeing are more about feeling worthy than about money or availability. seed | 23 | 30 | 16 | 21% | 30% | 55% |
| 33 | Arts, culture and creative outlets should be considered essential parts of health prevention. seed | 65 | 2 | 3 | 100% | 75% | 100% |
| 34 | Extra funding should go to community organisations and groups delivering health-improving activities, not to administrative bodies or systems that just connect people to them. seed | 40 | 13 | 16 | 60% | 37% | 75% |
| 35 | Health is built in daily life, not in hospitals or clinics. seed | 63 | 4 | 2 | 90% | 95% | 89% |
| 38 | Every time we ask a community program to prove itself in clinical terms, we risk destroying the very thing that made it work. seed | 40 | 15 | 15 | 55% | 50% | 68% |
| 39 | Scaling what works in this space should be done carefully, so it doesn't strip out the relationships, creativity and local character that make it effective. seed | 63 | 0 | 5 | 93% | 85% | 100% |
| 41 | Calling every park, library and choir "health infrastructure" risks stretching the term until it means nothing and helps no one make better decisions. seed | 44 | 16 | 10 | 47% | 76% | 74% |
| 43 | Cross-portfolio funding pools only ever create confusion about who's accountable when things go wrong. seed | 19 | 32 | 20 | 13% | 43% | 30% |
| 44 | The idea that we can grow something to national scale while keeping it intimate and human is not realistic seed | 17 | 43 | 7 | 20% | 28% | 32% |
| 46 | Governments are already funding health-generating activity, it just isn’t being recognised or measured. seed | 40 | 13 | 17 | 57% | 50% | 65% |
| 47 | Assigning an instrumental value to arts does not diminish their intrinsic value. seed | 50 | 8 | 11 | 87% | 74% | 47% |
| 48 | The system rewards sticking to the status quo, rather than exploring what might work better. seed | 51 | 8 | 11 | 87% | 40% | 84% |
| 52 | Should be cross sector investment. written live | 63 | 1 | 4 | 97% | 89% | 89% |
| 53 | We have strong local evidence of success and economic impact written live | 43 | 13 | 11 | 74% | 28% | 83% |
| 54 | Evidence continues to grow about the impacts of arts participation on welling, and in arts in health practice. Great examples of practice written live | 54 | 2 | 7 | 93% | 67% | 94% |
| 55 | There are pockets of good work with no way to consistently evaluate and no consistent referral pathways written live | 55 | 5 | 4 | 83% | 82% | 94% |
| 56 | This kind of framing supports more opportunities and links to traditional applications of arts and culture written live | 41 | 3 | 24 | 71% | 42% | 61% |
| 57 | This needs to be accompanied by initiatives that support art for art’s sake written live | 42 | 10 | 13 | 68% | 35% | 88% |
| 58 | Communities aren't supported to shape their environments for health & wellbeing. We need a Community Empowerment Act to address that gap. written live | 32 | 8 | 20 | 62% | 31% | 60% |
| 59 | Funding is the biggest barrier to implementation. written live | 30 | 24 | 11 | 52% | 26% | 59% |
| 60 | More data driven evidence written live | 30 | 21 | 14 | 41% | 63% | 37% |
| 61 | Disconnect between stakeholders and working in silos. Shared understanding but perspectives not coming together to progress. written live | 53 | 1 | 10 | 93% | 67% | 82% |
| 62 | Industry have social infrastructure that should be unlocked written live | 49 | 2 | 13 | 76% | 76% | 78% |
| 63 | Cross sector partnerships are essential written live | 64 | 0 | 0 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 64 | Not all arts, artists and arts programs are necessarily able to deliver health outcomes. written live | 48 | 9 | 7 | 76% | 82% | 67% |
| 65 | Social prescribing has under-valued the scalable and accessible receptive arts participation written live | 28 | 10 | 29 | 48% | 16% | 61% |
| 66 | We have strong local evidence and economic impact of successful projects…now is the time written live | 49 | 5 | 6 | 89% | 53% | 100% |
| 67 | Capacity within our community structures need to be nurtured and developed so we can support localised solutions written live | 59 | 1 | 4 | 100% | 75% | 94% |
| 68 | Young adults are not well catered for in current models of social prescribing written live | 41 | 5 | 21 | 66% | 53% | 63% |
| 69 | Need to intervene upstream not at symptomatic stage. written live | 53 | 1 | 10 | 79% | 95% | 75% |
| 70 | Committed and passionate people push the agenda forward. written live | 57 | 3 | 4 | 100% | 76% | 83% |
| 71 | Arts communities don’t speak the same language as health industry, which limits effective communication written live | 48 | 8 | 7 | 72% | 76% | 82% |
| 72 | Australia needs to prioritise community & ecosystem flourishing over $$ for war. End AUKUS & spend $350bn on community health & wellbeing! written live | 37 | 7 | 18 | 54% | 41% | 88% |
| 73 | More focus needed on true local community development written live | 54 | 2 | 10 | 90% | 61% | 89% |
| 74 | There needs to be more focus on evaluating the benefits of arts participation on society levels of social wellbeing written live | 39 | 14 | 9 | 67% | 69% | 53% |
| 75 | Cross sector collaboration needs to be funded and recognised through policy incentives. written live | 57 | 2 | 5 | 97% | 76% | 89% |
| 76 | Creating a positive ecosystem should include both arts and health and arts for art’s sake written live | 54 | 1 | 7 | 90% | 71% | 95% |
| 77 | Social prescribing pilots need to move to ‘stage 2’ and beyond written live | 52 | 2 | 7 | 96% | 71% | 82% |
| 78 | The mental/ health crisis is a cultural crisis - emerging from our disconnection as beings of nature and in relationship with all others written live | 48 | 2 | 10 | 74% | 69% | 100% |
| 79 | The A&H sector needs support to set agendas for diverse economics-oriented research and advocacy, for now and for the future written live | 41 | 4 | 14 | 81% | 41% | 80% |
| 80 | The key thing to do is help decision makers better prioritise to achieve positive outcomes written live | 41 | 7 | 14 | 66% | 56% | 80% |
| 81 | It’s hard to invest in what’s common sense for the future, while meeting the expectations of the present…. written live | 39 | 13 | 9 | 59% | 65% | 71% |
| 82 | We need shared language to communicate both health / wellbeing value, and non instrumental value(s) and benefits written live | 52 | 4 | 6 | 93% | 72% | 80% |
| 83 | funding models should take into account long term costs /expenses avoided, uncoupling long term finance decisions from shorter term politics written live | 52 | 1 | 7 | 96% | 82% | 73% |
| 84 | We need a good shared language to communicate the benefits without instrumentalisation written live | 48 | 4 | 8 | 81% | 59% | 100% |
| 85 | Not all artists / arts org have the skills or the capacity or the inclination to add value in arts and health written live | 51 | 7 | 3 | 76% | 82% | 100% |
| 86 | We are beyond evidence, let’s define the pathway ahead written live | 53 | 3 | 6 | 97% | 60% | 89% |
| 87 | The evidence is very strong. It needs structured leadership and advocacy. written live | 48 | 1 | 11 | 100% | 47% | 80% |
| 88 | The public isn’t as aware of the benefits of art:culture on health and that makes it harder for politicians and govs to fund things now written live | 46 | 10 | 2 | 74% | 81% | 87% |
| 89 | Art for art’s sake is a false binary - all arts can generate health. written live | 43 | 9 | 8 | 78% | 59% | 75% |
| 90 | clinicians have insufficient knowledge of the evidence written live | 42 | 9 | 10 | 66% | 65% | 80% |
| 91 | Social prescribing risks becoming medicalised or yet another silo written live | 31 | 19 | 10 | 31% | 73% | 69% |
| 92 | The problem is not only one of political will, it’s also one of political capital and getting the public on board written live | 51 | 8 | 3 | 75% | 88% | 88% |
| 93 | We need longitudinal data to address the evidence gap. It is just adding relevant questions to the existing health surveys. written live | 39 | 14 | 8 | 67% | 44% | 81% |
| 94 | True local participatory design is essential for meaningful engagement written live | 56 | 2 | 2 | 96% | 88% | 94% |
| 95 | We all intrinsically understand the health benefits of health participant, but we are unable to articulate at the collective level written live | 37 | 12 | 9 | 67% | 75% | 47% |
| 96 | It’s time to stop trying to locate virtue within health or within arts. Cross sector partnering is essential. written live | 53 | 1 | 4 | 89% | 93% | 93% |
| 97 | Such an opportunity to engage with industry for funding and participation written live | 42 | 0 | 19 | 71% | 65% | 69% |
| 98 | Every commonwealth and state/territory new policy proposals should contain a wellbeing impact statement written live | 53 | 3 | 6 | 96% | 65% | 88% |
| 99 | It doesn't have to be arts or health, it has to be an experience, and led by what the community needs The arts as a health behaviour written live | 46 | 4 | 9 | 79% | 87% | 67% |
| 100 | What we need most is shared funding infrastructure to bring together arts and health and respect their differences written live | 45 | 5 | 9 | 82% | 53% | 93% |
| 101 | Healthcare should honour life( not industry) written live | 43 | 4 | 10 | 74% | 71% | 81% |
| 102 | This arts and health agenda could create a perverse business model that monetizes the experience in unhealthy ways written live | 31 | 15 | 12 | 30% | 75% | 73% |
| 103 | Practioners are supported and well trained written live | 17 | 33 | 11 | 37% | 12% | 29% |
| 104 | Consider how existing approaches can support sustainability written live | 47 | 2 | 14 | 93% | 53% | 63% |
| 105 | Examples are needed of how large system infrastructure (national or state) can filter to local context sp written live | 40 | 7 | 14 | 72% | 56% | 63% |
| 106 | We need a paradigm shift to a wellbeing economy that prioritises human and ecological flourishing, not corporate profit maximisation written live | 55 | 1 | 6 | 90% | 82% | 94% |
| 107 | Acknowledgement of what went before I.e vichealth and WHO - promoting mental health -Herman, sacens, moodie written live | 28 | 2 | 29 | 44% | 33% | 65% |
| 108 | Everyone deserves access to art and it’s way more fun than a gym membership… which an insurer might fund… let’s treat art the same written live | 34 | 3 | 4 | 95% | 50% | 92% |
| 109 | we need to question our own paradigms if we wish to initiate change written live | 25 | 2 | 4 | 75% | 88% | 82% |
| 110 | The idea that there is additional funding available for such initiatives is naive - existing programs need to be leveraged written live | 18 | 7 | 4 | 45% | 71% | 73% |
| 111 | Artists bring a different way of thinking that should not be co-opted written live | 17 | 4 | 4 | 56% | 60% | 82% |
| 112 | by focusing purely on arts are we not creating the same silos and structures we wish to avoid or change written live | 13 | 4 | 7 | 56% | 75% (thin) | 45% |
| 113 | We need an equivalent to the UK’s All Parliamentary Group for arts and health written live | 16 | 2 | 5 | 100% | 50% (thin) | 55% |
| 114 | We are amid a right of passage, we will either flourish or fail - and invited to consider what futures are worthy of the best of us written live | 8 | 3 | 5 | 50% | 50% (thin) | 50% |
| 115 | our current theories on health change are not adequate to explain why SP is important. written live | 9 | 1 | 2 | 60% | 100% (thin) | 83% |
| 116 | A structure is needed for cross sectoral collaboration that allows everyone, down to grassroots practitioners, to share knowledge and learn written live | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100% (thin) | – (thin) | 100% (thin) |
“Most consensus” ranks by the lowest agree rate across the three groups (a statement only ranks high if all agree); “most divisive” by the spread of net agreement between them. Statements with fewer than 4 votes in any group are unranked and sort last.
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