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Government & Communities in Partnership Symposium
Government & Communities
in Partnership: The Next Steps
One Day National Symposium 9am, Wednesday 18th May,
2005
@ St Hilda's College College, College Crescent, Parkville
Introduction
In the
late 1990s, the idea of place
management was associated with a series of pilots and experiments in
new
approaches to joined up government, community and local governance. Now
it seems the period of experiment is
ending and a new more substantial phase of reform is under way. This is
evident at the Commonwealth level, for
example, with indigeneous community partnerships, and at the State
level with the
Victorian Governments launch of a range of place-based measures to
address
local disadvantage as well as other programs such as YP4 which are
designed to
address population groups with complex needs.
This symposium will allow participants to hear about these new
developments hapening around the country. Speakers will
explore the issues from the point of view of government and from the
point of
view of the community. Community
practice, bureaucratic and academic views will also be
heard.
Venue
This symposium will
be held at St Hilda's College. Click here
for venue information.
Program
Click here
to download the symposium agenda.
Sessions
include:
- New
place based initiatives in
Victoria
- Victorian
initiatives in international
perspective
- Challenges
for state and
territories
- Challenges
for local government
- Challenges
for the
Commonwealth
- Without
a strong community sector, joined-up
governance will go nowhere
- What
community sector requires
to work differently
- Residents
and volunteers - dynamics of power and
voice
- Experience
of YP4 Vic
Speakers include
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The Honourable John Thwaites
Deputy Premier,
Minister for Victorian Communities
Before entering
Parliament in 1992, John Thwaites
lived in South Melbourne and worked as a barrister. He was a local
Councillor in the City of South Melbourne from 1985 to 1993, and Mayor
in 1991 to 1992. In 1994, he became the Shadow Minister for Health,
adding planning to his portfolio of responsibilities in early 1999.
With the
Brack's Government's electoral
victory in October 1999, John became Minister for Health and Minister
for Planning. John was Deputy Leader of the Opposition from 1996 and
has been Deputy Premier since 1999.
When
the Brack's Government was re-elected in November 2002, two new
departments were created - the Department of Sustainability and
Environment, and the Department for Victorian Communities. more
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Dr Peter Shergold
Secretary to
Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet
Dr
Peter Shergold has been Secretary of the Department of the Prime
Minister and Cabinet since February 2003.
He
received a B.A. (First Class Honours) in Politics and American Studies
from the University of Hull; an M.A. in History at the University of
Illinois; and a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics.
He migrated to Australia to take up a lectureship at the University of
New South Wales in 1972.
In 1985
Dr Shergold became Head of the Department of Economic History
at the University. While an academic he wrote Working Class Life
(1982), edited The Great Immigration Debate (1985), was a major
contributor to Convict Workers
(1988) and authored more than 50 academic articles on economic, social
and labour history. He has taught at the University of Illinois,
Southampton University, the London School of Economics and Pennsylvania
State University. He has twice been a Fulbright Scholar. more
Click here to
download Peter's
presentation
(PDF 59.3 Kb)
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Linda Beilharz
Senior Manager of the
Community Services and Development Unit, St Luke's Bendigo
Linda
Beilharz is a Senior Manager of the Community Services and Development
Unit at St Luke's, which is a large, innovative, regional welfare
agency. St Luke's provides welfare services to the most disadvantaged
people in our community and runs prevention programs that strengthen
disadvantaged communities. Her work incorporates neighborhood scale
community development, management, teaching, public speaking, policy
advocacy and consultancy. Linda has several academic qualifications
including a Graduate Diploma in Community Development and a Masters in
Health Sciences and has published a book called Building Community. The
Shared Action Experience.
Click here to download Linda's
presentation
(PDF 222 Kb)
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Yehudi Blacher
Secretary, Department
for Victorian Communities
Yehudi Blacher was
appointed as
first Secretary of the newly established Department for Victorian
Communities in December 2002. Yehudi joined the
Victorian Public Service in 1980. In the variety of
senior positions he has held, both
policy and operational, he has
consistently been involved in major reforms to
different aspects of the public sector. Yehudi has a strong interest in
public policy and is a Victorian Fellow of the Institute of Public
Administration Australia.
Click here to download Yehudi's
presentation
(PDF 54.6 Kb).
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Prof Mark Considine
Director, Centre for
Public Policy, University of Melbourne
Mark
Considine is a
graduate of the University of Melbourne and his areas of expertise
include Australian politics, comparative social policy, public sector
reform, governance and public administration, and organisational
sociology. He is the Director of the Department's Centre for Public
Policy.
In
2000 he won the American Society for Public Administration's Marshall
E. Dimmock Award for the best lead article published in Public
Administration Review, with his co-author, Jenny M Lewis. In 2001 he
won the American Educational research Association's Book of the Year
for The Enterprise University, written with Simon Marginson. more
Click
here to download Mark's presentation (Powerpoint 229 Kb).
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Louise Coventry
Manager, YP4
Louise Coventry is a
passionate advocate for social justice. She has worked variously in
state government, local government, the community-based sector and in
self-employment over the last 15 years. Louise has accumulated
expertise in social policy analysis, research and management, and she
has published several works addressing employment policy, young people,
economic development and refugees. Most recently, Louise was Executive
Director of Springvale Community Aid and Advice Bureau. Louise is very
enthusiastic about her new role as YP4 manager: YP4 is an innovative
trial which seeks to demonstrate that joining up services and programs
in a client-centred
manner will result in more sustainable employment and housing outcomes
for young homeless jobseekers.
Click here to download Louise's
presentation (Powerpoint 795 Kb).
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Dr Shane Houston
Assistant Secretary, Office of Aboriginal Health, Family
and Social Policy, NT
Shane Houston's
experience spans over 20 years in senior management roles in community
and public sector health agencies. Shane played a lead role in the
creation of the National Aboriginal Health Strategy and the Heads of
Aboriginal Health Units. He was the CEO of the National Aboriginal and
Islander Health Organisations (NAIHO) (the predecessor to the current
National Association of Community Controlled Health Organisations
[NACCHO]), has served on many local, national and international
government and non government committees and as General Manager of
Aboriginal Health in Western Australia.
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Cr Warren Maloney
President, Victorian Local Governance Association
Warren's professional
background is in insurance, marketing and
personnel. He served as a Councillor and Mayor on the former Brunswick
City Council in the 1980s. Warren now lives in Daylesford and is a
Councillor at Hepburn Shire. He maintains a strong interest in issues
such as public participation in local government, equal opportunities
for all in the community, job creation and community sustainability.
Click
here to download Warren's presentation (Powerpoint 70 Kb).
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Tony Nicholson
Executive Director, Brotherhood of St Laurence
Tony
Nicholson, BA, BSW, has dedicated almost 25 years to improving
conditions of those living on or close to the edges of society.
Tony
spent 14 years as Chief Executive Officer of Hanover Welfare
Services, a Melbourne based organisation regarded as Australia's
leading agency in the field of homelessness.
He has worked in the field of homelessness for the past 20 years. He is
currently a member of the Commonwealth Government's Advisory Committee
on Homelessness and of the Victorian Government's Ministerial Housing
Council. He was a member of the Board of Governors of the Australian
Council of Social Services between 1997-1999, a director of the Board
of the Victorian Council to Homeless Persons 1998 - 2003, and a member
of the Ministerial Advisory Committee for the development of the
Victorian Homeless Strategy, 2000-2002.
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Dr Julie Nyland
Bradfield Nyland Group and Management Support Online
Julie Nyland and Jane Bradfield are the Directors
and principal consultants of Bradfield
Nyland Group, a
consultancy practice specialising in not for profit or community
management,
organisational development and capacity building for communities and
non
government organisations. Julie has a long history working with the non
government sector, which includes work as an academic, community sector
practitioner, educator and trainer, and researcher. As part of
Bradfield Nyland
Group, she has developed a number of training programs, good practice
guides
and resource kits dealing with good governance, community management
and a
broad range not for profit operational issues. Bradfield
Nyland Group ahs recently completed
a major project on the viability and sustainability of small to medium
sized
organisations.
Bradfield Nyland Group have also recently launched
managementsupportonline (MSO). This
website is an online management support, skill development and advice
service
for Australian community and not for profit organisations.
Click
here to download Julie's presentation
(Powerpoint 190 Kb).
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Dr Tim Reddel
Director, Social
Policy, Department of the Premier and
Cabinet, QLD
Tim
Reddel has combined work in the public sector with an ongoing interest
in academic research and teaching. He has held senior policy
positions in the Queensland public service since 1991, most recently as
Director of Social Policy in the Policy Division, Department of
the Premier and Cabinet. From 2001 until 2004, Dr Reddel was a research
fellow with the School of Social Work and Social Policy, University of
Queensland, where he managed the School's Australian Research Council
project on local governance and social inclusion. In 2004 he was
appointed an adjunct research fellow at the Urban Policy Program,
Griffith University. His most recent publication is a co-edited
book (with Paul Smyth and Andrew Jones), Community and Local Governance in Australia
published by UNSW Press in 2005.
Click here to download Tim's presentation
(Powerpoint 73.5 Kb).
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Professor Paul Smyth
Brotherhood of St Laurence / Centre for Public Policy,
University of Melbourne
Paul
Smyth is Professor of Social Policy at the University of
Melbourne; and
General Manager of Social Action and Research at the Brotherhood of St
Laurence. This joint position involves leading research and the
development of policy around partnership solutions to Australia's
social problems. His work combines policy development and research at
the BSL with teaching and research at the University's Centre for
Public Policy. Paul's diverse career combines academic and social
action experience. He was previously the Director of Social Policy in
the School of Social Work and Social Policy at the University of
Queensland. Prior to this he was senior researcher at Uniya, the Jesuit
social research and action centre at Kings Cross, Sydney. A former
Catholic priest, he also worked for 20 years in youth and family care.
Paul's research areas include contemporary Australian social policy,
local governance and social inclusion and international perspectives on
social inclusion. His books include Australian
Social Policy. The Keynesian Chapter, Contesting the Australian Way,
and Social Policy and the Commonwealth.
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