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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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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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for further information. |
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AGM SEASON
Making a difference in our not-for-profits.
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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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for further information. |
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DISABILITY AND MENTAL HEALTH
Charter for National Action
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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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WORKSHOP - WEDNESDAY 14 March
Social
capital and community building
An introduction to
the concepts of social capital, civil society and empowerment; the key
features of community building; what is good social policy?; what governments can and can't do and how to tell
the difference.
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Time:
1.00pm - 4.00pm
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Place: Melbourne
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Facilitator:
Vern Hughes, Director, Centre for Civil Society
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Cost:
$66 staff of funded organisations
Free for unfunded participants
RSVP: mailto:info@civilsociety.org.au
TALK - TUESDAY 20 MARCH
Cash and care: emerging issues in promoting choice, control and self-directed
support
Hear Melanie Henwood from the UK
on the empowerment agenda in Britain. "The idea of empowering service users
through a direct alocation of money, rather than through the provision of a
direct service, is being hailed in England as the next big idea in social care
and beyond, as evidenced by the increased use of Direct Payments, the expansion
of 'In Control', and the piloting of individual budgets".
CLICK HERE for further details.
RSVP: Megan
Griffiths
mailto:megangriffiths@unsw.edu.au
forum - Thursday 22 March
parents, teachers and schools: A Call to Action
A forum for parents and teachers
on reforming our schools; funding choice; and developing a new policy agenda in
education. Includes discussion on our draft Call to Action.
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HERE
for more information.
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Time:
7.00pm - 9.00pm
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Place: Melbourne
No cost.
RSVP: mailto:info@civilsociety.org.au
forum - Thursday 29 March
SMALl business manifesto
A forum for small business owners
and managers on policy reform to support small businesses and challenge growing
concentrations of economic ownership and power. Includes discussion on our draft
Small Business Manifesto.
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for more information.
No cost.
RSVP: mailto:info@civilsociety.org.au
WORKSHOP - WEDNESDAY 18 APRIL
Social capital and community building
An introduction to the concepts of
social capital, civil society and empowerment; the key features of
community building; what is good social policy?; what governments can and can't do and how to tell the difference.
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Time:
1.00pm - 4.00pm
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Place: Melbourne
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Facilitator:
Vern Hughes, Director, Centre for Civil Society
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Cost:
$66 staff of funded organisations
Free for unfunded participants
RSVP: mailto:info@civilsociety.org.au
NATIONAL CONference
- 16/17 MAY
The Empowerment agenda:
Empowering individuals and families in the human services
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Time:
9.00am - 5.00pm both days, Thursday and Friday 16/17 May
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Place: Melbourne
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Speakers:
Leading practitioners, consumers and advocates working for empowerment of
individuals and families in the human services
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Cost:
$396 staff of funded organisations
$495 staff of government
organiations
$33 for unfunded participants
Further
Information: mailto:info@civilsociety.org.au
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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
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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 to empower ordinary people.
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family carers of people with a disability, a chronic or mental
illness, or aged frailty in Australia. They are invisible to
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