Rob Salter

Robert Salter has been over the years a community sector worker, campaigner, academic and occasional writer. He is currently a freelance thinker and writer, while accompanying his wife Christine on her sabbatical leave in the UK.Rob has worked with the University of Melbourne's McCaughey Centre on a research project around the subject of social investment, jointly auspiced by the Salvation Army, where Rob was also a Community Development worker with Crossroads Youth and Family Services.Rob's work brings together and builds evidence about the ways in which social investment yields financial and economic benefits to society across a wide range of areas of disadvantage, in addition to generating benefits for specific individuals, and advocates for increased investment of this kind.

Articles by Rob Salter:

Cooperation, Community and Climate Change

Rob Salter reflects on the deeper implications of responding to climate change for the way we organise our society, in his new paper that explains why better relationships are the key to successful action on climate change more

Cooperation, Community and Climate Change:

Robert Salter argues that better relationships are the key to successful action on climate change. more

Rethinking Social Investment

In the first and second articles in this series, Robert Salter argued for the society-wide benefits of more substantial public investment in the disadvantaged and identified obstacles and tasks to be addressed in pursuit of this goal. In this final article, he proposes two measures that might help achieve the higher level of investment he advocates. more

Obstacles to Social Investment

In the second of his series of three articles on investment in the disadvantaged, Robert Salter identifies some key obstacles to implementing the increased investment he advocated in April InSight. His third article, in the next issue, will advance some solutions. more

Unpacking social investment

In a series of three articles to appear in consecutive issues, Robert Salter considers the notion of viewing spending on the disadvantaged as a form of investment yielding returns to the broader society. more

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