This report offers an evaluation of the project entitled “Enabling National Initiatives to Take Democracy Beyond Elections” that was implemented by newDemocracy Foundation (nDF) from 1 November 2018 to 30 November 2022 globally and in three country locations: Brazil, Republic of North Macedonia and Malawi. The project benefited from a UNDEF grant of US$ 250,000...
Read our submission here. The newDemocracy Foundation commends the Victorian Parliament’s Electoral Matters Committee for seeking to engage the public in the proposed re-design of the Victorian Upper House electoral system. newDemocracy is a not-for-profit foundation that advocates for innovative ways to modernise democracies. We are experts in how to deliver best-practice citizen engagement. We...Continue reading
Question to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese from Geoff Gallop on ABC TV’s Q+A 24/2/25: Allegra Spender is asking for a Citizens’ Assembly to open up the tax reform conversation. What do you see as the pros and cons of agreeing to this?
By Dennis Shanahan, in The Australian Fifteen years ago a political misjudgment by Julia Gillard at the start of her 2010 election campaign effectively destroyed Australian support for the idea of a citizens’ assembly to help develop new policy on difficult and divisive issues outside the traditional political parties. Indeed, the searing political and public...Continue reading
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By Luca Belgiorno-Nettis, Mon 26 Aug 2024 in The Mandarin Two hundred years ago yesterday, self-rule began in Australia. On the 25th of August 1824, a group of people met for the first time to have a say about the workings of the fledgling colony. A majority vote of the five members of this first...
Manningham Council is partnering with newDemocracy to deliver the Manningham Community Panel. The Community Panel will feature 40 people chosen through a democratic lottery and tasked with providing recommendations they find agreement on to answer the question: Council has a budget of $147 million, but we can’t do everything and need to make hard choices....Continue reading
Read our submission here. We thank the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters for this opportunity to contribute to the inquiry into the administration of the 2023 NSW state election and other matters, including political donations and truth in political advertising. Reforms to the political donations and campaign financing laws in New South Wales must...Continue reading
By Iain Walker, March 14, 2024, published by the Jerusalem Post. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu receives regular criticism for failing to share the plan for Gaza after the military role concludes. The lack of an official position on this subject could stem from the fact that all over options are unattractive, and so a new approach is...Continue reading
By Luca Belgiorno-Nettis, 4 March 2024, published by The Mandarin. The issue of housing affordability isn’t going away – even though it seemed that the Albanese Government had settled the matter last year. Now the Greens are baulking over the ‘Help to Buy’ bill. In September, the government passed what it described as ”Landmark legislation...