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We bring people
together in each federal electorate (150 electorates around
Australia) to work locally in engaging our communities and our
representatives in a non-party, neither-left-nor-right
agenda of empowerment of ordinary people.
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SELF-DIRECTED
SERVICES AND PERSONAL BUDGETS
You can take charge of your social support, education and health
care through a personal budget.
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AGM SEASON
Making a difference in our not-for-profits.
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STREET BY STREET
Linking
up people who live in the same
street or nearby to build community through practical helping
tasks - on a national scale.
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COMMUNITY BUILDING
NATIONAL NETWORK
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Network. |
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LEFT AND RIGHT?
"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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NATURAL
nEIGHBOURHOODS
REAL COMMUNITIES
NAtiONAL conference
Darebin Arts and
Entertainment Centre
Melbourne
22-23 June 2009 |
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Read
the Program Here
Venue Details,
Transport and Accommodation Options Here
This event is a national networking and
development conference for people interested in building and strengthening
natural neighbourhoods through initiatives such as:
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 Circles
of support
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Informal and
social volunteering
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Daily living
supports for older neighbours
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Buddy,
companionship and visitor schemes
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Street parties
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Homework clubs
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Gardening clubs
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Cross-generational interactions and
mentoring
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Schools and
neighbourhoods
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Car pooling and
community transport
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Family day care
and baby-sitting clubs
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Welcome for new
arrivals
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Neighbourhood-based cultural
exchange
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Neighbourhood-based language
learning and teaching
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Community safety
initiatives
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Community choirs
and music
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Micro-boards
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Self-help groups
in fitness and health maintenance
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Neighbourhood
initiatives in recreation, sport and the
arts
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Neighbourhood
venues, cafes, pubs and meeting places
By 'natural neighbourhoods' we mean
clusters of social relationships which are generated by individuals,
families, neighbours, friends, playmates and workmates through informal and
incidental, as well as formal and intentional, interactions, and which are
different from 'professional-client' relationships, 'business-customer'
relationships, and 'state-citizen' relationships.
Read the Program Here
The conference will also aim to develop several
initiatives for national coordination and
implementation in communities around the country. These (so far) include:
- Street by Street
(neighbour to neighbour social support) on a national scale
- Circles of
Support/Circles of Security development and coordination
- KeyRing Neighbourhood
Supported Accommodation Networks
- Newcomers network
Proposals are invited for action
proposals and projects requiring national development and coordination.
Proposals should be
forwarded 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
There is no specific format required for
proposals. Conference presenters will be required to register at the
appropriate rate.
Register Here
Venue Details,
Transport and Accommodation Options Here
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Community Building National Network.
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TRANSFORMING OUR
SCHOOLS
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details of our campaign for a Real Education Revolution.
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for
info on the National
Federation of Parents, Families and Carers. |
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LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR
FAMILIES
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CORPORATE
WELFARE WATCH
Latest Handout Tally
$6.4b 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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Making It Personal. |
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EMPOWER
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There are 2.7million
family carers of people with a disability, a chronic or mental
illness, or aged frailty in Australia. They are invisible to
politicians and policy makers.
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