A wide range of institutions, including democracy, economics, religion, gender, technology and higher education, are showing signs of acute stress or outright failure. …. In this dangerous historical moment, we need to urgently heed Plato’s warning and re-imagine our social … Read More
Excellence in Strengthening Partnerships “We’ve got wonderful partnerships and relationships with many people now. This is going to be useful for Public Health going forward” Professor Nicola Spurrier, Chief Public Health Officer, South Australia The work we desgined and delivered … Read More
We were chuffed to be interviewed by Dr Lyn Carson from the New Democracy Foundation for their “Facilitating Public Deliberation” podcast series. This podcast reflects on the virtual Citizens’ Jury which we ran in March 2020 – under the shadow … Read More
Online engagement given In our last blog, we reflected on our 7 lessons from our virtual citizens jury (click here to read), and indicated that we were surveying our jurors to understand their experiences. We’re sharing those here…. and, we … Read More
At democracyCo our work is centred around working together with people in communities across Australia and internationally. Everyday, people are at the centre of what we do. With the rapidly changing environment in society due to COVID19, our business, like … Read More
Context During March 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 outbreak across Australia, the RACQ Citizens’ Jury was moved from an in-person to online mode of deliberation. The Jury was based in Queensland, Australia and the democracyCo facilitators based in … Read More
There are 6 key elements to deliberative democracy – which when used in combination support successful sustainable policy development. We are delighted to have published our expertise in collaboration with ANZSOG – and we hope you find this little publication … Read More
democracyCo was recently contacted by a resident of Victoria – Robert Salter, who has a passion for improving our democracy. Robert contacted us as he was wanting to set up a community group to advocate for improved involvement of citizens … Read More
Reform is hard, and elections aren’t the time to do it – so when is …? This is hard for me to say as I have always believed that it is important for political parties to stand for something and … Read More
Last week I flew to the US to attend a multinational research exchange at the Kettering Foundation, in Ohio. This was my third year working with the foundation – to explore and find ways to get ‘our’ democracies working as … Read More