This the second research report exploring the nature of Indigenous community governance in Australia - aiming to understand what works, what doesn’t work, and why. This report brings together findings from the fieldwork conducted during 2006, based on evidence drawn from case studies of Indigenous governance in action within differing community, geographical, cultural and political...

This Policy brief explores what makes community-based services for children and families effective. It identifies interpersonal and structural features that characterise effective services, and shows that how services are delivered is as important as what is delivered. Why is this issue important? Concern about the effectiveness of services for young children and families is based...

This report is about building stronger communities in Melbourne’s rapidly growing urban-rural ‘Interface’ areas. The Committee’s core finding in this report is that good urban design alone is not enough to build successful new communities in the context of rapid growth and demographic change. More can be done to assist and empower communities to work...

The project began in 2001 with the aim of involving family, school and community in a broad set of planned interventions to prevent anti-social behaviour by targeting four to six year old children in transition to school focusing on enhancing their communication and social skills and empowering their families, schools and ethnic communities. The early...

This report by Jeanette Pope provides a theoretical framework for the indicators chosen as a guide for the department - why they were chosen and what they represent. It also reviews the international evidence about the outcomes of networks and participation for communities and summarises what we know from the Victorian findings to date.