It is hard to think about the challenges of information sharing in the age before social media and the internet. In March 1978, when organisations were dependent on physical resource…
Posted In: #134 Spring 2018, Celebrating 40 years, From the Vault, Inner Sydney Voice – ISRCSD,
With population increasing quickly, the time has come to reinvest in inner city schools. Between the 1980s and 2000s, many inner city schools closed. Inner Voice, in December 1980,…
Posted In: #133 Autumn 2018, Education, From the Vault,
Social mix is easy to lampoon as this carton shows. This may be why governments now prefer to use the term “integrated communities” rather than “social mix”. Whatever the term,…
Posted In: #132 Winter 2017, From the Vault, Inner Sydney Voice – ISRCSD, Planning and Built Environment Issues, Tenure Mix – Social Mix,
Challenging Disabling Images has been an ongoing issue as this month’s from the vault shows. We have struggled with it in preparing the cover for this issue. The usual physical…
Posted In: #131 Summer 2017, Disability Issues, From the Vault, Inner Sydney Voice – ISRCSD, Planning for People and Social Issues,
Since Bob Carr started the intervention in Redfern and Waterloo 14 years ago, residents have dealt with four different government renewal agencies fronted by eight different local level agency heads.…
Posted In: #130 Spring 2016, From the Vault, Inner Sydney Voice – ISRCSD, Planning and Built Environment Issues, Planning in Inner Sydney,
It is nice to know that public participation was fashionable in the summer of 1993/4 as recorded by Inner Voice. Twenty plus years on, with Westconnex and little dialogue with…
Posted In: #129 Winter 2016, Community Engagement, From the Vault, Inner Sydney Voice – ISRCSD, Planning for People and Social Issues,
Twenty-one years to implement HACC Inquiry recommendation. In 1994, Inner Voice reported on the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Community Affairs inquired into the Home and Community Care (HACC)…
Posted In: #128 Autumn 2016, Aged Services – My Aged care, Disability – National Disability Insurance Scheme, From the Vault, Human Service Delivery, Inner Sydney Voice – ISRCSD,
In 1995 Marg Barry gazed into the next 20 years of Regional Council based on her first 20 years. Her focus on community development, keeping community in community services, communities…
Posted In: #127 Summer 2015/16, Community Development, Community Sector, From the Vault, Inner Sydney Voice – ISRCSD, Planning for People and Social Issues,
The 1983 Richmond Report recommended the NSW Government fund a system of community-based networks, backed up by specialist hospital and accommodation services. It was called deinstitutionalisation but while the cutting…
Posted In: #126 Spring 2015, From the Vault, Inner Sydney Voice – ISRCSD, Mental Health, Planning for People and Social Issues,