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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 an agenda of empowerment of ordinary people
and strengthening of civil society.
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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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AGM SEASON
Making a difference in our not-for-profits.
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for further information. |
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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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COMMUNITY BUILDING
NATIONAL NETWORK
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to participate in the
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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SURVEYS |
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If you are the proprietor of
a small business, please send us your thoughts on how we can support
small businesses through our |
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SMALL BUSINESS SURVEY |
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If you
are caring for an ill or disabled family member at home, please click
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Family CarERS SURVEY |
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Disability, MENTAL HEALTH AND FAMILies
The Centre for Civil Society will host a major campaign in support of a paradigm
shift in public policy and community support for people with
disabilities, mental illnesses and their families. This campaign will be an
ongoing priority in the work of the Centre.
The campaign will be national in scope and organised in each
of the 150 federal
electorates around Australia. It will link together consumers and carers,
disability and illness types, families and advocates - groups which have for
too l ong been fragmented and ineffectual in influencing policy.
To co-ordinate our political
influence on governments and politicians, we will organise by federal
electorate across the country. In each of the 150 federal electorates, we
will invite convenors to come forward and convene lobbying, campaign and
media initiatives involving everyone who wants to be involved (consumers,
parents, friends, siblings, advocates, support workers, service providers).
We will work to a
CHARTER FOR NATIONAL ACTION
(click to read the Charter). Most importantly, we will work across the
disability-type boundaries that have weakened our influence dramatically
(autism, psychiatric disability, ABI, physical disability, intellectual
disability TOGETHER not divided.)
To participate you just need to register
your interest (using the form below). We will organise online, with convenors in
each federal electorate. Participants in each electorate comprise a federal
electorate assembly (FEA).
Expressions
of interest are invited from people wishing to be appointed as a Convenor in
their electorate.
People who are not members of
any political party, as well as people from various parties, are welcome to
participate.
DISABILITY, MENTAL
HEALTH AND FAMILIES: CHARTER FOR NATIONAL ACTION
Click
HERE to read
the text of the Charter.
HOW
TO BECOME INVOLVED
Simply
fill in the online form (below). There are 150 lower house federal electorates: select the name of your electorate from the drop-down menu.
In each electorate we will appoint a Convenor. When you fill in the form, consider offering to convene the campaign in your
electorate, bringing people together for local initiatives. This will involve working with others in your electorate to
communicate to your MPs and your community that disability, mental health and carer
issues should be at the top of their priority list.
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Comments
on the Campaign are welcome and should be sent to Vern Hughes by
email
or on 0425 722 890.
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TRANSFORMING OUR
SCHOOLS
CLICK HERE for
details of our campaign for a Real Education Revolution.
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PARENTS FAMILIES AND
CARERS
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for
info on the National
Federation of Parents, Families and Carers. |
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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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THIRD WAY FORUM
Communitarianism,
Mutualism, Third Way Thinking
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to find out more. |
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Family Carers
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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How to Use this Website
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If you are visiting
this website for the first time, please note that there are two
sets of links - one at the top of each page; and a second down
the left hand and right hand side columns on our various
projects.
Click on the links on the top of the page for information on the
Centre for Civil Society.
Use the
SEARCH
button to find items of interest.If you are having problems
navigating, there are additional links at the bottom of each
page. Or click here for our
PLAIN TEXT version (ideal for printing).
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