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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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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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CONTACT DETAILS
Centre for Civil Society
PO Box 159
Yarraville Vic 3013
Phone - 0425 722 890
Email -
info@civilsociety.org.au
GENERAL STATEMENT OF HANDLING POLICIES
We respect your right to privacy and we recognise the trust you are placing in us through your dealings with us. As such we do everything we can to maintain that trust.
Under law your rights to privacy are also protected. The Privacy Act 1988 and general law place strict requirements on us to treat any information you give us as confidential. The information you
provide remains private and is only used for the purposes outlined below.
WHICH INFORMATION WE COLLECT & WHY WE COLLECT IT
Contact information such as: name; address; phone numbers and e-mail addresses are used to keep you abreast of any issues or developments we may think you have an interest in.
Financial information such as: bank account and credit card details are used to process transactions.
Sometimes, we may also collect some more personal information about you such as your interests; your professional profile etc.
This information is used so we can notify you of any developments that may be of specific interest to you. However, it is only collected with your full consent and you may always decline to provide
that information to us.
Once collected, the information is always treated as strictly confidential and is never disclosed to a third party without your prior consent, or unless required by law. We never
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OPTING OUT OF FURTHER CORRESPONDENCE
If you do not wish to receive any further
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How this information is held
The security of your information is important to us. When we have collected information about you it cannot be seen or modified by anyone else. We make all reasonable
efforts to ensure that your information is stored securely in both electronic and physical forms.
Where we use external contractors, such as a conference organiser, any personal information disclosed to the contractor remains confidential to us.
Any information which we no longer require is destroyed. An exception to this may be the retention of the information for data analysis. However if this occurs then the information will be retained in
a form which does not allow you to be identified from that information.
Complaint and dispute resolution procedures
If you believe we have breached your privacy rights in any way, or you would like to discuss any issues about our privacy policy please contact the
Communications Manager. We will try
to satisfy any questions that you have and correct any errors on our part.
If we do not answer your concerns to your satisfaction you have the right to make a complaint to the Privacy Commissioner. The Privacy Commissioner may be contacted on 1300
363 992 or at
http://www.privacy.gov.au.
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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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STREET BY STREET SUBURB BY SUBURB
Community Building and Social Inclusion
National Development Conference
21/22 April 2010
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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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Family Carers
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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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