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Quarterly Journal for Social Justice, Sustainability, Community Development & Human Rights.
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NC publishes articles and other material about or broadly relating to community development theory and practice.
We hope to contribute to the ongoing debates and mutual learning of all those interested in the theory and practice of Community Work in Australia and further a-field.
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Issue 89 Editorial & Contents
Dear readers, subscribers and friends of New Community, welcome to our 23rd year of bringing you news, stories, information, networking opportunities, calls to get involved, reflections… all about and around Community Development… I know, 2025 has started to fray a bit at the edges given that we’re already in March, autumn, in the middle of…
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Growing and Learning in Rural Communities (Sheil 2024)
Revised edition Visionary thinking, moving into the twenty-first century, has to be inclusive, and it has to allow people to create common ground. (Josė Ramos, 2023; Futures brought to life, Time’s Up, University of Applied Arts, Vienna) The sun is shining today, little wind and abundant birdlife here on Lake Tyers. A peaceful interlude. I’ve…
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Issue 88 Editorial & Contents
Dear New Community Subscribers, Supporters, Readers and Friends Welcome to our final issue of 2024, our 22nd year of publication following the 17 years of Community Quarterly (1983-2000) as the main community development journal in the country… Adding the 75-or-so pages of this issue, we’ll have shared another 350-or-so pages of community development and contextually…
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Norlane Community Initiatives:
our neighbourhood 2024 Survey Simon and Kaylene Reeves with collaborators At Norlane Community Initiatives, we have always believed that local transformation happens best when it actively involves the people who live in our community. Because of this, our team lives and works alongside our neighbours. We share life and work together to develop solutions to…
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Issue 87 Editorial & Contents
Welcome to our third issue of 2024, addressing Multiculturalism and establishing the connection with community-based or oriented work, a perennial issue in Australia if there ever was one! More about this in the thematic editorial next… We first need to say a huge thank you to the incredible subscriber response to the insert page in…
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Building Better Communities
Les Halliwell Memorial Address Howard Buckley Introduction This year’s community development conference theme is Regenerating our community: getting our hands dirty. There’s something about this theme that resonates with anyone who’s attempted to engage with and build community where they live, the theme reminds us of the grounded nature of this work – it’s not…
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Issue 86 Editorial & Contents
Welcome to our second issue of 2024, our 22nd year of (re-)appearing… I hope that the first half of the year has been ‘good enough’ for you personally and for your community efforts and involvements… of course, all in spite of the sometimes nasty political and economic context we seem to be wading through momentarily…
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Kinder is not just for children:
Maribyrnong Kinder and the value of self-governance Marika Fengler Kinder is not just for children. It’s a place where families, educators and the wider community can learn, play and grow alongside their children. At Maribyrnong Kinder, everyone has a role and something meaningful to contribute. Whether it’s taking home a bag of laundry to wash,…
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Issue 85 Editorial & Contents
Welcome to the first issue of our 22nd volume, our twenty-second year of bringing you communitydevelopment news and information and critical thinking about the changing – and not often very friendly – context in which community development operates in Australia and globally… Including the 17 years during which the Community Quarterly appeared from 1983 to…
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