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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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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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are caring for an ill or disabled family member at home, please click
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Family CarERS SURVEY |
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National Summit of Parents Families and Carers
 
  
Melbourne 24-25
May 2010
Angliss Conference
Centre Melbourne CBD
With Speakers
Steve Biddulph
Author
Noni Hazlehurst Actor
Anne Manne
Author
Melinda Tankard Reist
Author
Jenny Shale
Educator and Parent Activist
Andrew Kohane
Castlemaine Parent Partnership
Tania Clarke
Work and Family Advocate
Sarah Mayor Cox
Shared Parenting Advocate
Fim Jucha
Family Disability Activist
Kate Lyttle
Family School Community Partnership Bureau
Kathy Walker
Parenting Educator and Innovator
Moira Eastman
Educator and Author
Pat Burgess
National Council of Women
Chantelle Jury
Advocate for Families with Autism
Angela Conway
Families Advocate
Daniel Donahoo
Author
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Provisional
Program
Keynote Speaker
Anne Manne
Author of
Motherhood: how should we care for our
children (2005)
Love and Money: the family and the free market (2008)
So This is Life: Scenes from a Country Childhood (2009)
"For
far too long there has been no broad public voice in Australia advocating for
parents, families and carers. Crucial decisions by government on policies
shaping how we care for our families - children, the elderly, those with a
disability- are dominated by a neo-liberal world view which often reduces family
values to rhetoric about increased workforce participation. There is no serious
discussion of realistic policies to ease what is often a collision between work
and family life.
On health, or schools, or disability, or parental leave, the debate is
restricted to politicians, academics, and service providers, with parents and
families invisible.
Often the only voice claiming to speak for families is the
conservative Christian lobby through organisations like the Australian Family
Association, but such groups do not ‘represent’ the diversity of contemporary
Australian families. Because there is no inclusive and representative voice, too
many of us are excluded from public debate on policies which profoundly affect
our well being.
What we want to do at this Families Summit is explore ways of changing all this.
It is time to create a new voice and a new movement of parents and families."
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Anne Manne
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Program
Enquiries:
Vern Hughes
National Summit Convenor
vern@civilsociety.org.au
Tel: 03 9824 4713
M: 0425 722 890
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nominations for our Ambassadors for Parents Families and Carers.
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for information on the National Federation of
Parents, Families and Carers.
There is no cost to join the Federation.
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TRANSFORMING OUR
SCHOOLS
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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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Making It Personal. |
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THIRD WAY FORUM
Communitarianism,
Mutualism, Third Way Thinking
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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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