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SWOT Analysis in the Australian Context

Part 1

Goal:

Quality Education

Key Targets:

• 4.1 By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free equitable and quality primary and
secondary education leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes.  
• 4.2 By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development,
care, and pre-primary education so that they are ready for primary education.  
• 4.3 By 2030, ensure all equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical,
vocational, and tertiary education, including university.  
• 4.5.1 By 2030, eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of
education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities,
Indigenous peoples, and children in vulnerable situations.  

(United Nations, n.d-a).

Strength:

45.7% Australians are tertiary educated due to the impact of COVID-19 and how, since becoming
unemployed, individuals decide to up skill or return to study (United Nations, n.d-a).

Weakness:

• Remote learning remains out of reach for at least 500 million students (United Nations, n.d-a).  
• Socio-economic inequality in math's is growing (71% in 2018). (United Nations, n.d-a).  

Opportunities:

• Allowing enrolment on all students  


• Diminishing some neoliberal policies such as eliminating basing enrolment on students’ current
grades/behaviour  
• Less high-stakes assessments  

Threats:

The impacts of covid-19: Disruptions to schooling likely to have a negative impact on learning particularly
for disadvantaged students, as well as having a negative impact on low-income households (due to
financial stress).
SWOT Analysis in the Australian Context

Part 2

Goal:

Responsible Consumption and Production --

Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.

Targets:

By 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses
along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses (United Nations, n.d-b).

Strength:

• Per capita waste has declined in Australia since 2000 (Monash University, 2020).  
• Diverting food to to the food rescue sector (Australian Government: Department of Agriculture,
Water and the Environment, n.d).  
• Research and technological improvements (rehabilitating food) for the agricultural sector
(Australian Government: Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, n.d).  

Weakness:

• Food waste costs the economy around $20 billion each year.  
• Each year we waste around 7.3 million tonnes of food – this wastage equals about 300kg per
person or one in five bags of groceries.  
• Food waste accounts for more than five per cent of Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions  

(Australian Government: Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, n.d).

Opportunity:

• Make organic food waste bins available Australia wide.  


• Consumer education on waste  
• More food waste bins around.  
• Shopping smart (Cleanup, n.d).  
• National Food Waste Energy (Australian Government: Department of Agriculture, Water and the
Environment, n.d).  

Threats:

• Unreliable process/systems in place for businesses  


• Not enough education on food waste  
• Not enough FOGO bins  

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