Michael Coutts-Trotter has come from the NSW Department of Finance and Services to be the Director General of Family and Community Services (FaCS). His move coincided with the same move…
Posted In: #119 Summer 2013/14, Housing Types and Issues, Public Housing, Public Housing – Policy changes,
Having engaged with communities on government policy reform and land use planning for about 25 years, Roberta Ryan thinks it’s time to raise a different perspective.
Posted In: #119 Summer 2013/14, Community Engagement, Planning for People and Social Issues,
The roll-out of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) in NSW commenced on 1 July 2013 with a three year ‘launch’ in the Hunter region. The scheme is due to…
Posted In: #119 Summer 2013/14, Disability – National Disability Insurance Scheme, Disability Issues, Health Services, Planning for People and Social Issues,
Planning for urban growth is big news at the moment. The Government is forging ahead with its new planning legislation, its Metro Sydney Strategy and new transport system, not to…
Posted In: #119 Summer 2013/14, Environment, High-rise Development, Planning and Built Environment Issues, Transport, Urban Development,
In 2008 I watched Waterloo, a documentary by filmmaker Tom Zubrycki, and I was left wondering why I’d not taken the time to watch before. “Waterloo” is an historical account…
Posted In: #119 Summer 2013/14, Community Sector, From the Vault, Housing Types and Issues, Inner Sydney Voice – ISRCSD, Public Housing, Public Housing - Waterloo, Urban Development,
One of the co-cordinators and strategists for the Lift Redfern: Make Redfern Station Accessible campaign, Michael Chapman writes on applying ‘common ground’ team building strategies in engaging a range of…
Posted In: #119 Summer 2013/14, Civil Society Issues, Community Engagement, Community Sector, Planning for People and Social Issues, Redfern Station, Transport,
Every four years the census people come knocking on our doors and we fill in the census questions. In the back of our minds we know it must be useful…
Posted In: #119 Summer 2013/14, Community Sector, Planning and Built Environment Issues, Research,
With public housing in Millers Point, Dawes Point and The Rocks again under threat of sale a group of interested locals formed a group called CoRE following a community meeting.…
Posted In: #119 Summer 2013/14, Homelessness, Housing Types and Issues, Public Housing, Public Housing – Millers Point,
A study by the NSW Auditor General recently concluded that the limited resources available to the NSW social housing system mean that it is only capable of meeting 44% of…
Posted In: #119 Summer 2013/14, Homelessness, Housing Types and Issues, Public Housing, Public Housing – Policy changes, Urban Development,