Our mission is to improve democratic decision-making

We provide organisations with cutting edge consultancy in designing, implementing and evaluating empowered public participation or deliberative democracy to resolve challenging, complex problems.

We achieve this by combining the skills and talents from our various fields.

  • Innovative practices in public participation strategy, design and delivery by utilising our extensive knowledge and practice of deliberative and participatory methods
  • New thinking – fostered through research, reflexive learning, evaluation and advocacy
  • Technology – maximising the use of smart technologies to elicit public wisdom and collective intelligence
  • Research – decades of time spent on the front lines of resolving contested societal problems, while applying rigorous scientific methods and information

Our goal is to encourage and support decision-makers, citizens, government agencies and other organisations to create ongoing opportunities for everyday people to influence decisions in the common good.

Meet our Team

Empowering Participation

Our charge is empowering public participation. We respond to government and public needs to resolve challenging issues by designing, implementing and evaluating empowered public participation or deliberative democracy processes.

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Resources

Participation in planning and governance: closing the gap between satisfaction and expectation
Deliberative Collaborative Governance as a Democratic Reform to Resolve Wicked Problems and Improve Trust
Deliberative Participatory Budgeting in the City of Greater Geraldton, Australia
Port Hedland Enquiry by Design
Bassendean Enquiry by Design
Review of Alkaline Lime Sand Routes
North East Corridor Extension Strategy
East West Freight Route
Corporate Concurrent Citizens’ Juries
Albany Administration Centre Site

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Deliberative democracy scaling up, out and forward

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