How can you make your vote help make democracy stronger? Citizens’ Juries &Mini-Public Evaluation:CAPaDs evaluation of the ACT CTP citizens jury and carer stratgey panel and advocate for more trials An Ecology of representation is a report by Peter Tait on representation in a participatory democracy and its transcendence over … Read More
How can you be an active citizen? Community Organizing A guide for citizens to take collective action against pollution and destruction t build a better world: ACF_Community_toolkit_Fix_the_system_web.pdf Active Electorate Groups See Salter 2020: A third domain of political engagement See the Active Democracy Australia site for more information on setting … Read More
How can you be an active citizen? Community Organizing Innovative citizen participation and new democratic institutions is the OECD review of international experiences of citizen deliberation. Sydney Alliance:A diverse coalition using community organizing to make Sydney a better place to live The Australian democracy network is a network aimed at … Read More
How can you be an active citizen? Resources available Active Democracy Australia aims to encourage and enable voters in every federal electorate to form an electorate action group, through which, together, voters in your electorate can improve how you are represented. ACT active citizens kit: An information kit to guide … Read More
How can you be an active citizen? Role of citizens and of the community Rob Salters video on Revitalizing democracy A paper offering ideas of how to facilitate better relationships between representatives, Rob Salter’s paper on electorate level mobilization at a community level. The list introduces civil engagement in democracy … Read More
How can you make government work for you and your community? Active governance Awakening Democracy by Robust Representation focuses on the question “how can we elect political representatives who are committed to the interests if the community?” The Democracy 76 ways for citizens to civically engage:The list introduces civil engagement … Read More
Sites to help select between candidates Smartvote Australia: a website matching citizens to candidates who share your opinions. A tool developed to explore how the views of citizens align with those of candidates Vote compass. A website making elections simple by connecting voters and candidates Vote Easy. Open Australia aims … Read More
Governing with the people Improving accountability Political Gadgets “Free tools providing insights into what our politicians stand for.” Actually “this site is all about information. Shining some light on what’s going on. Giving people tools to understand what their representative is really doing.” They vote for you records and reports how … Read More
Active Governing The Australian Experience New Democracy Foundation focuses on the advantages of citizen deliberation in improving democracy The ACTCOSS journal issue 90 is a springboard for reflective practices and the changes we hope to see by 2020. Reforming our democracy provides a list of reforms available to improve democracy. … Read More
Dissatisfaction with government and democracy Trust in Government “Are people dissatisfied with democracy or are they really dissatisfied with government or with the failure of government and the behavior of our parliamentarians? Each means a different response is required. Fundamentally we want good government to be delivering for our wellbeing. … Read More
