TY - Briefing paper AU - Joy McCann PY - 2012 T1 - Community cabinets in Australia PB - Parliamentary Library (Australia) DO - https://doi.org/APO-30763 UR - https://apo.org.au/node/30763 AB - Community cabinets were introduced by the Beattie Labor Government in Queensland in 1998 as a mechanism for encouraging greater community engagement with the processes of policymaking. Whilst similar approaches have been introduced in other countries to encourage more direct dialogue between governments and citizens, the community cabinet model appears to be an Australian phenomenon, having been embraced by the Commonwealth Government and most of the state and territory governments. ER -