Australian Study Circles Network
August 23, 2007
Are our financial gurus finally realising the value in employee share ownership plans (ESOP) – as they do elsewhere in the world? Alan Greig of The Mercury Centre has alerted us to a two page Australian Financial Review report by […]
August 17, 2007
“Australia has all but lost the race to develop really fast broadband in the Asia Pacific,” says Leith Campbell British telecommunications expert. “While Asian countries are burning up the telecommunications roads, Australia appears to be fiddling…the political will to invest […]
August 12, 2007
Nick Minchin, Government leader in the Senate, has argued ‘strenuously’ behind the scenes for the Senate to perform its function as a house of review and look into the proposed NT Aboriginal intervention legislation, reports the National Indigenous Times (NIT). […]
August 9, 2007
Mark Brophy, passionate advocate of the study circle approach to ‘difficult dialogues’ that all communities face at some time, hosted the second ‘Study Circle Australia’ meeting last Friday – August 14th – with a diverse range of people from all […]
July 14, 2007
‘Community engagement’ and ‘deliberative democracy’ are becoming common phrases in planning and community development. WA seems to be leading the charge – paying more than lip service (? one hopes!) to ‘sustainable development being about assisting communities to control their […]
July 10, 2007
A reader has passed on an excellent article in The Guardian about cash for schemes such as parks, litter, and antisocial behaviour being decided by ratepayer ballot. It has the same spirit as four key points that came out of […]
July 2, 2007
It’s interesting to hear the rumblings of deliberative democracy here – particularly in WA – where Dr Mark Brophy, 2006 Fulbright Professional Award recipient, presented a Study Circle Workshop at the Adult Community Ed. Conference at Central TAFE, Perth, in […]
July 1, 2007
In 2006 Mark Brophy won the Fulbright Professional Award – sponsored by the Australian Department of Education, Science & Training – to investigate study circles and community-wide circle programs in the US. This has been his passionate interest and research […]