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The proposed community food garden at Glen Junor

Liveable, sustainable communities are achievable. We just need visionary, transparent political leadership.

Across Australia, our local Councils are struggling to put aspirational policies on health, wellbeing and the environment[…]

As COVID prompts an urban exodus, we need to make sure that we protect regional liveability and identity

COVID has taught us that we do not always need to commute to work. While this can[…]

COVID has exposed the fault lines of Melbourne’s liveability

The Victorian Government’s “Global Victoria” website proudly declares that each year between 2010 and 2017, the Economist[…]

Eight ‘Grand Challenges’ For Our Time, And How I Can Help You to Address Them

Prof Jeffrey Sachs, American economist, academic, public policy analyst and former director of The Earth Institute at[…]

“What matters to me”

I’m trained in community psychology. Established in 1969 in response to overtly clinical models of psychology, community[…]