paul’s books share one argument: fairer outcomes do not happen by accident. They are built through deliberate choices about how our services, systems, and supports are designed and who they are designed for.
Across health, housing, energy, childhood, the care workforce, and community life, the collection explores what it looks like to act early, design well, and lead with care. Not just in moments of crisis, but in the everyday conditions that help people get on with their lives.
Running through all of it is a commitment to kind politics: leadership that uses power as a duty of care, listens before acting, and keeps fairness and prevention at the centre.
These are practical books, written for people who want to make things better and are looking for ideas they can actually use.
- Hardcopy editions can be purchased directly via www.books.by/paulmallett.
- eBook editions are available through major online retailers, with links provided for each title below.
Click on a book title below to explore each text in more detail.
vibrant city: twelve upstream initiatives to reshape Launceston’s future
What if a city put prevention first and let kindness be its compass?
vibrant state: ten kind policies to transform Tasmania
What if a state treated prevention and kindness as core infrastructure?
vibrant nation: eight citizen-led movements to advance Australia fair
What would our nation look like if we led with kindness and prevented harm before it happens?
the kind politics playbook: vibrant leadership for changemakers
What if there was a different way of thinking and leading in our complex world?
A State of Good Health: A Blueprint for a Prevention-First Tasmania
What would our state’s health system look like if prevention-first was embedded as a governing discipline?
A Home for Everyone: A Blueprint for Ending Homelessness in Tasmania
What if our state stopped managing homelessness and started designing systems that end it?
Affordable Warmth: A Blueprint for Healthy, Warm Homes for All Tasmanians
What would it take to end energy poverty in Tasmania and guarantee warm, dry homes within a generation?
Every Child Succeeds: A Cradle-to-Career Commitment to the Children and Young People of Tasmania
What would it take for Tasmania to build a prevention-first Cradle-to-Career System that supports every child from conception to young adulthood?
“It’s the Care Economy, Stupid!”: A Blueprint for a Prevention-First Care Economy in Tasmania
What would it take for Tasmania to build care systems that are deliberately designed, properly stewarded, and supported by a strong, stable, well-distributed workforce?
Lives Worth Staying For
What would it take to build the social, economic, and cultural conditions that make all lives worth staying for?
