The Premier of South Australia, the Hon Mike Rann MP, established the Social Inclusion Initiative in 2002. While he drew extensively on the ideas of the Blair Labour Government in Britain, which had set up a Social Exclusion Unit in 1997, the Premier called on South Australia's record of social innovation and its history of...

Business increasingly recognises the importance of human rights. Over 5,000 companies across 130 countries are signatories to the UN Global Compact and have committed themselves to the Global Compact’s ten principles, including six that address human rights and labour standards. A 2006 survey of Global Fortune 500 companies found that nine out of ten companies...

This report is intended as a practical resource for local councils wishing to engage their communities in decision making and planning. The focus is on how to broaden the range of people represented in council processes, especially those who are reluctant to participate in traditional consultation methods. This is the final report of a project...

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the origins of the concepts of social inclusion and exclusion and of key themes and emerging debates about social inclusion in Australia and selected overseas countries. The concepts of social inclusion and exclusion are closely related, and it is difficult to discuss social inclusion...

This paper presents on the issues of social inclusion and older people which has received relatively little academic and policy attention in Australia. It particularly considers the SOCIAL dimensions of social exclusion. This paper was presented at the Social Inclusion Down Under symposium hosted by the Brotherhood of St Laurence at the University of Melbourne...