It is said the Chinese word for crisis is comprised of two characters, one meaning danger and the other opportunity. In every crisis there is opportunity. Our world is confronted…
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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…
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Stefanie Pillora reflects on her time working with Marg Barry and wonders how she would respond in this age of sophisticated community consultation methods which seek to avoid the noisy…
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Inner Sydney Regional Council for Social Development has been working around South Sydney for 40 years. For old hands it is known from its history as ‘Marg Barry’s Mob’. For…
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The life of Bishop John Charles McIntryre (27 October 1951 – 6 June 2014) was Celebrated at Saint Saviour’s Anglican Church Redfern on 17 June 2014 where John Mac as…
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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…
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In his 2012 Marg Barry Memorial Lecture Dallas Rogers talked about the need for two different kinds of community participation spaces and the importance of monitoring government. With proposals for…
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For a while now there has been a discussion and a good deal of academic and practitioner attention placed on developing good community participation tools, ‘best practice models’ if you…
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