Blogs and Updates

Dem36 has had a fabulous response to our Towards a Charter discussion paper, with many South Australians contacting us to share their thoughts on the challenges modern democracies face, and offering their ideas for how we might revitalise our democratic practices in South Australia. We have been struck by the degree of thoughtfulness and creativity in the ideas put forward.

Over the next four years of our consultation and discussion phase, we will gather, categorise, and carefully consider all feedback provided to us. This feedback will ultimately be used in the development and advocacy of the Charter for Democratic Renewal - a document that will set out the people's demands for democratic reform and revitalisation.

This process will depend on open communication and respectful discussion as ideas are formulated and tested.

To this end, we will be releasing regular blog posts here under the Engagement Report label, to share feedback on our community consultations. We will also publish posts under the Dem_Discussions label to the share the ideas, comments, and submissions received by Dem36. We invite anyone with an idea for how we could do democracy better to contribute their thoughts (or even an entire blog post!) to be published on the Dem36 website. We encourage contributors to consider and respond to the themes, principles and questions in the Towards a Charter discussion paper, which we are using as a framework for our online and offline discussions.