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SPOTLIGHT ON COUNCILS EMPOWERING COMMUNITIES

SPOTLIGHT ON COUNCILS EMPOWERING COMMUNITIES

MosaicLab has had the privilege of working with many Victorian councils over recent months and supporting them to design and deliver deliberative engagement processes. An interesting and exciting element of this experience has been the high level of influence some councils offered to their community around the development of their community visions.

In this article we look at three different approaches. One council that set the level of influence at ‘empower’ from the outset, and two others that accepted their community’s vision statement in full.

CLIMATE CHANGE ASSEMBLIES AROUND THE WORLD

CLIMATE CHANGE ASSEMBLIES AROUND THE WORLD

Queenscliffe is one of the smallest local government areas in Australia, but in convening a public deliberation on climate change it has joined some major world players.

In this article, we look at what some other countries are doing to tackle climate change through citizens’ assemblies.

The Senate Inquiry into Nationhood, National Identity and Democracy

The Senate Inquiry into Nationhood, National Identity and Democracy

In November 2020 when the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Reference Committee held an inquiry into Nationhood, national identity and democracy’ our Managing Director, Nicole Hunter, was there to give evidence about how deliberative processes could improve democracy and restore faith in the democratic process.