Events

The election is coming up fast. Know your candidates as people so that you can choose who you think are the best five people to represent you in your electorate. Find out more about them on this website at our Know Your Candidate pages.

Restorative approaches to justice. The ACT has the third highest rate of Indigenous child removals and youth 10-17 in detention, and very high Indigenous adult incarceration and recidivism. We know that jailing is failing, and different approaches are needed. Come and hear Dr Holly Northam, Convenor of the Canberra Restorative … Read More

CAPaD supported event   Purpose is a documentary feature film which follows the journey of two political economists, Katherine Trebeck & Lorenzo Fioramonti, with a simple dream: Change the way progress is measured in order to change what governments do.   Over two years this film traces their efforts to … Read More

2024 ACT election wrap with election analyst Malcolm Baalman.     Then we'll have a break till February. We welcome suggestions for topics and speakers for next year – just email your ideas.

The Progressive Action LabProgressive Action Lab, set up by Justin Ryan, seeks to start a conversation about the practice of renewing our government systems, and in particular the selecting for candidates and ultimately about how political parties might be reformed. This fits beside CAPaD’s aim to have 2025 conversations, building … Read More

Please come along to celebrate the year with other members and CAPaD friends and supporters. Weston Park barbecues, BYO plate +/- own sustenance and beverages.

Local Politics in the Pub resumes on February 17th at the Austrian Australian Club, Peter Tait will be introducing the MP Job Description. MPs have a very important job – governing the country. We all have a vague idea what they do but do we really understand their job? Do … Read More

We have Job Descriptions – why not MPs? Now we are taking the next step to think about what a job description for MPs might look like, building on the 2024 ACT Election activity around the skills and attributes we want our MLAs to demonstrate. In essence, MPs have a … Read More

CAPaD wants to help voters and candidates understand what our members of parliament do on our behalf. To this end, members of the Canberra community have created voters’ expectations (link). Based on this we have crafted some questions we intend to ask candidates at Forums to be held in each … Read More

CAPaD wants to help voters and candidates understand what our members of parliament do on our behalf. To this end, members of the Canberra community have created voters’ expectations (link). Based on this we have crafted some questions we intend to ask candidates at Forums to be held in each … Read More