The Governments and Communities in Partnership conference held in September 2006 brought together key policy makers, community leaders and researchers from around Australia, together with leading experts from the UK, Ireland, Austria, Canada, the United States and New Zealand. The aim of the program was to deepen the academic and policy debate about the impact...

Community services are unable to meet demand for help, according to this report based on responses from 1182 community services which assisted 2,740,000 people across Australia in the 12 months to June 2005. Nearly two-thirds of service providers reported an increase in the complexity of needs of people in the past year which required more...

Lack of funds meant 68 per cent of community services surveyed were not able to help all the people who sought assistanceaccording to this report. The survey found a 6.5 per cent increase in the number of times people were turned away from a community service in 2003-04 compared to the previous year. Surveyed organisations...

This report focuses on the organisational demography of peak bodies, some of the challenges to their roles in policy making, democratic citizenship and representation.