Community Engagement in Policy Development

Putting citizens at the centre of programs and policies

23rd & 24th February 2010, Rydges Melbourne

Speakers include Senator Kate Lundy, Hon Dr Geoff Gallop and Dr Nicholas Gruen.

For a full program and to register for this conference please click here

The need to develop and implement an improved community based primary health care system has never been stronger. As a CPD subscriber you are entitled to a 10% discount if you attend Integrated Primary Health Care 2009 to discover how existing models of equitable community based care are being established nationally.

Date: 30th September - 1st October 2009.

CPD Fellow, Ben Spies-Butcher considers how tax breaks are transforming Australia's welfare. Are these new forms of social security promoting self-reliance or more welfare for the rich? If you’re in Melbourne, come along to this joint Centre for Policy Development and Australian Fabians event on 6pm Wednesday 1 July.

CPD Board Director John Menadue will ask 'What is a health service for? Where is the strategy in health reform?' at the Victorian Healthcare Association's annual conference, 'Realising Reform', on Friday, October 17 2008.

CPD Director Miriam Lyons will MC a session of the Melbourne Writers Festival "The Honest Trader" featuring Duncan Green, Kenneth Davidson and Heikki Patomaki at Federation Square, Melbourne, on Sunday August 24.

CPD fellow Steve Keen, author of 'Deeper in Debt: Australia's addiction to borrowed money' will speak at an event hosted by progressive think tank Per Capita in Melbourne on Friday March 14.

John Menadue addressed the Victorian Healthcare Association on 'the reform agenda' on Tuesday November 13, 2007. His speech is available for download here.

CPD Director Miriam Lyons and fellow Emma Dawson will join international researchers to present a workshop titled Narratives of Inclusion: Multiculturalism versus Plural Monoculturalism in Liberal Democracies at the 12th International Metropolis Conference on Migration, Economic Growth and Social Cohesion in October in Melbourne.