Jul 7, 2015 | Citizens' juries, Deliberative, Local government, Participatory budgeting, Planning
How many times have you heard this old maxim? They don’t know what local government does. A maxim does express a general truth, but the good news is you can disrupt the general truth from time to time, to make the most of great opportunities. Disruptive...
Jun 23, 2015 | Citizens' juries, Deliberative, Local government, Participatory budgeting, Planning
You want to be sure it’s the right decision to run a participatory budgeting jury. It’s a big thing. You want the stars to be aligned, in all the constellations: the senior executive team, the councillors and managers. They may be champions of the approach...
Apr 23, 2015 | Citizens' juries, Community Governance, Deliberative
The US Deliberative Democracy Consortium … Recently published an article on an issue close to my heart, deliberative publicity. Say a Council has a wonderful deliberative event – it could be the Darebin Participatory Budgeting Jury for example. It makes...
Mar 17, 2015 | Citizens' juries, Health, Translating the scientific stuff
If you lost the wealth of your brain’s services to you … God forbid! as my friend Judy would say, with a tone of voice and look that will dispel dire misfortune now and forever. … If you or your sister or your partner or child lost some of their...
Feb 12, 2015 | Citizen committees, Community development, Deliberative, Local government, People, place & governance, Walking
Right now there’s a council officer out there battling with a squeaky wheel. I know this from my research on local government committees, where their role was a frequent theme. The officer is usually acting in the context of strategy and plans. The committee...
Nov 28, 2014 | Citizens' juries, Collaborating, People, place & governance
‘I come from a place there wasn’t any democracy. This is a really big influence for me. I also feel strongly that democracy is more than just turning up to vote.’ Gail Fairlamb is Director of Participation and Partnerships in South Australia’s...
Sep 17, 2014 | Community Engagement, Deliberative, Local government, Participatory budgeting, Sustainability, Terms of reference
This week the recommendations of the first Melbourne participatory budgeting jury were unanimously approved by Darebin City Council. The jury’s final meeting was in early August and council worked quickly to get the recommendations (Item 901 Appendix A 15...
Sep 17, 2014 | Advisory committee, Citizen committees, Community Engagement, Community Governance, Local government, People, place & governance, Terms of reference
In early September, I presented on improving the functioning of citizen committees’ at the SA Community Managers’ conference in Adelaide. The conference is for local government managers and the theme was ‘Active Citizenship’. I proposed three...
Sep 10, 2014 | Local government, People, place & governance, Planning, Public transport, Walking
Bikes go hand in hand with the social enterprise focus of Donkey Wheel House. In 2013, City of Melbourne developed plans to improve Godfrey Street. It’s a little street that runs alongside Donkey Wheel at the Southern Cross end of town. At Hub Melbourne we saw...
Jul 11, 2014 | Collaborating, Community development, People, place & governance
Nominations for the 2015 National Community Development Award (Australian Regional Development Conference) close on Tuesday next week (15 July 2014). The key criterion? How does your project demonstrate innovation and/or best practice in the way your organisation does...
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