This project is about the effect of population growth on communities and the social factors which influence how suburbs grow from small townships to larger suburbs.

As an ‘action research’ project over a period of more than three years, the Generations Project has been remarkably successful in finding out what it takes to ensure that community art practices can enrich the practice of local government in Australia. This comes at a time when the building of resilient and inclusive local communities...

With the support of the Telstra Foundation and the Australian Research Council, RMIT researchers investigated the role and significance of Indigenous cultural festivals in wellbeing outcomes for Indigenous communities and their young people. They found that festivals really do matter to communities; from a proliferation of very small events celebrating local community life, to complex...

A Community Initiatives Scheme (CIS) was foreshadowed in the NZODA Cook Islands Country Strategy 2001-2006, which recommended a new flexible, responsive mechanism for supporting civil society be introduced and managed by the New Zealand High Commission in Rarotonga. Its purpose was to provide support to civil society organisations in a more focused way than previous...

This policy campaign argues that older Australians should be able to choose how and where they want to live, well supported by affordable care delivered as it is needed. The Campaign for the Care of Older Australians (CCOA) is a joint effort by Australia’s leading aged care organisations - The National Aged Care Alliance. CCOA...