CAPaD Blog

Recent addition to the democracy ecosystem in Australia: Review of The High Performance Political Party Peter Tait Justin Ryan, 2023, HP3 The High Performance Political Party, Australian Progressive Media www.hp3.com.au In his monograph, Justin Ryan of the Progressive Action Lab, argues that at this juncture of Australian politics, progressively inclined … Read More

OECD Public Governance Policy Papers, No. 12, 14 December 2021 Building on the work CAPaD did with the OECD last year, this paper outlines eight participatory and deliberative models “for institutionalising representative public deliberation to improve collective decision making and strengthen democracy. Deliberative bodies like citizens’ assemblies create the democratic … Read More

From the Public Health Association Australia blog, Intouch, Peter Tait suggests ways that we can be active citizens in the upcoming election. After all, do we want more of the same non-government? See here -> https://intouchpublichealth.net.au/be-angry-about-politics-in-australia-and-vote-thoughtfully/

Updating last weeks post, the video of the talk at the Australian Public Health Conference is now available on YouTube. The second half focuses on the ideas around electorate level mobilisation. (https://youtu.be/d3pzpIN3skY)

Peter Tait presented this talk at the Australian Public Health Conference on 24/9/21. His talk Planetary Health for the Public’s Health is reproduced on the Croakey blog here as A rallying call for public health to refocus efforts, on building government for the public’s good. (https://www.croakey.org/a-rallying-call-for-public-health-to-refocus-efforts-on-building-government-for-the-publics-good/)

The Australian Democracy Network, whose aim is to extract undue, excessive corporate influence from our political system, has launched a campaign to grow toward achieving that. More details about the campaign and the petition can be found on the #OurDemocracy website. It is fascinating how the our democracy meme is … Read More