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Our vision: a democratic Australia, where citizens trust their elected representatives, hold them accountable, engage in decision making and sustain the public good
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What CAPaD is doing to strengthen democracy
We work to improve community participation in government policy development and decision making by building strong working relationship with our representatives -
How to make democracy stronger
Our Ideas and Resources Hub will help you find out more about democracy, governance and ideas that you can put into practice -
Kitchen Table Conversations Kit
Host a Kitchen Table Conversation, a community-based, self-managing conversations and help create the pre-conditions for people to join in participatory democracy.
Genuine Engagement Tool
Ever wondered if government engagement with community really is a genuine participatory process?
The Genuine Engagement Tool (GET) is designed to help communities reflect on their experience of government engagements. Using the tool, communities can get clear insights on how they can keep their own power and agency in government engagements and how they can communicate more transparently about how governments can engage better.
You can get an open source copy of the Genuine Engagement Tool for community groups here and you can read the story of how it was developed here.
A brief video explaining the tool and how to use it is here.
Please download it, use it and feed back to us what you think.
Education Strategy
Helping people caring for the public good, contribute to good government.
CAPaD has an Education Strategy to guide our activity.
Latest Views and News
Our work relies on the good will and effort of our volunteers. Education also costs money.




