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"The Left and Right have been as bad as each other. The Left has allowed its distrust of markets and endless faith in government to obscure the importance of civil society. The Right has been so focused on replacing the state with markets that it has forgotten how to cultivate a trusting society.

This is the politics of the absurd. The Left identifies with the good society but rarely talks about the mutualism and trust between people. The Right recognises the importance of moral obligation but gives the impression of trusting market transactions more than civil society."

Few things seem to happen anymore without a government law or market transaction to guide them. This is how record levels of GDP in Australia now sit alongside record levels of crime, social stress and family  breakdown. The political balance needs to swing back towards civil society.

This task, in fact, requires a new type of politics."

Mark Latham, Mutualism: A Third Way for Australia," 1999.

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FUnding communities: new Vision, new agenda

NAtiONAL conference
Darebin Arts and Entertainment Centre
Melbourne
26-27 May 2008

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Call for Papers and Presentations

This national conference of the Community Building National Network will explore a new vision for funding communities and develop an agenda for reform of the way governments allocate resources for building and strengthening communities.

It will identify cases around the country where new funding models are being developed, in indigenous and mainstream communities.

The conference will bring together community leaders, practitioners, researchers, policy makers, social entrepreneurs and workers in community agencies who are interested in funding reform. It will explore innovative  developments in Australia and overseas, and develop an agenda for policy change to be taken forward through the Community Building National Network.

Proposals are invited for papers, presentations and workshops on the following themes:

- case studies of innovative new funding models for communities;
- current or proposed forms of pooled funds from various programs and jurisdictions;
- current or proposed forms of public, private, mutual and/or philanthropic funding mixes;
- evaluation of current methods, practices and paradigms, and their social outcomes;
- analyses of system failure;
- proposals for system re-design, and new funding models;
- institutional impediments to reform, political processes and strategies for change;
- comparative examination of indigenous and non-indigenous approaches in funding communities.

Submissions of abstracts of papers and proposals should be forwarded by Friday 14 March 2008 by email or hard copy (not exceeding 300 words) to:

Vern Hughes
Conference Convenor
vern@civilsociety.org.au
PO Box 159 Yarraville Vic 3013
Tel: 0425 722 890

Early bird deadline for registrations: 31 March 2008.

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PARENTS
FAMILIES AND CARERS


Second National Conference of Parents, Families and Carers.
Brisbane, 3/4 August.
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COMMUNITY BUILDING

Natural Neighbourhoods, Real Communities
National Conference.
Melbourne 22/23 June.
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CORPORATE
WELFARE WATCH


Latest Handout Tally

$6.2b Car manufacturers subsidies
$2b Commercial property construction industry
$3.9b Free emission permits to coal-fired electricity generators
$2b Car dealer finance guarantee
$149m GMH 4 cylinder car
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THIRD WAY FORUM

Communitarianism,
Mutualism, Third Way Thinking

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MAKING IT PERSONAL

Charlie Leadbeater, Jamie Bartlett and Niamh Gallagher have authored this highly influential Demos Report on Self-Directed Services and Personal Budgets.
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to read Making It Personal.

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EMPOWER
INCLUDE

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