A group of researchers decided to ask children what they think about the communities they live in - what they think makes a strong and supportive community, for children and for adults. Executive summary In 2008, a group of researchers surveyed 108 children across six different places in the eastern part of Australia - aged...

This article explores the idea that certain of our current cultural ideals and practices may be inimical to our ability to imagine and experience ourselves as members of these imagined, enduring communities.

This report argues that a narrow focus on promoting diversity threatens individual liberty by promoting the interests of particular groups over those of the individual. Summary When it first emerged as an official policy in the 1970s, multiculturalism was a response to the legacy of the White Australia policy. Multiculturalism continues to enjoy broad popular...

The Council's new Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) demonstrates its ongoing commitment to recognising, supporting and embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts and Cultures into our organisation and encouraging this practice in the arts sector. Our visionThe Australia Council for the Arts vision for reconciliation is to ensure that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts...

This paper draws insights from Melbourne’s long-term metropolitan planning strategy to explore these equity-efficiency tensions, to describe the normative agendas aligned with strong and participative community, and advance insights into wider implications for the collective and personal resilience of the communities caught between decision makers and planners in high-order agendas.