The Australian Citizens\u27 Parliament was held in February 2009, with one participant from each federal electorate. The main meeting was a culmination of a process involving a series of regional meetings and online development of proposals by citizen participants. Within a broad charge of \u27How can Australia\u27s political system be strengthened to serve us better?\u27 participants could develop their own proposals and so craft the agenda. The process yielded a set of recommendations for the structure and operation of government, as well as masses of social scientific data
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Citizen engagement and e‐government initiatives in Australia remain somewhat underdeveloped, not lea...
This paper reviews the near-century of Parliamentary development of the Commonwealth electoral syste...
In Australia, a range of Federal Government services have been provided online for some time, but di...
The authors compare two initiatives designed to enhance public participation in Australia: the Austr...
Active citizen participation is increasingly being recognized as essential to effective public polic...
From last Friday to Monday, sandwiched between official parliamentary sittings, a different type of ...
Can the State reasonably pursue the task of nation-building if governments are not prepared to adapt...
This paper, originally a presentation to the Sydney Democracy Forum, discusses how the current democ...
Saturday’s political earthquake demonstrates Australians do not like the way their political system ...
In the context of declining trust in our democratic institutions, parliaments and communities around...
Parliamentary institutions have undergone a revival internationally during the last twenty years. As...
This three-year Australian Research Council-funded project builds on a partnership between the ANU a...
The Foundation chose the role of Parliament as one of its first three initial substantive projects, ...
The British Columbian Citizens ’ Assembly on Electoral Reform comprised a representative group of 16...
Parliamentary institutions have undergone a revival internationally during the last twenty years. As...
Citizen engagement and e‐government initiatives in Australia remain somewhat underdeveloped, not lea...
This paper reviews the near-century of Parliamentary development of the Commonwealth electoral syste...
In Australia, a range of Federal Government services have been provided online for some time, but di...