The Government's promise creates an exciting new opportunity to more meaningfully represent Australian youth, but it needs to look beyond the old toolkit
Some really thought-provoking ideas in this blog. I really liked the focus on engaging with those groups that are too often overlooked in these kinds of discussions - and the way that this might go from a principle to a practice, and also the focus on a rotation of mini-publics, rather than a permanent or semi-permanent body. I do wonder, however, what kind of form this deliberate democracy approaches might take, and how that form might be best shaped to reflect young peoples lives and their engagement with the world today (and not older views of what society might think this should look like).
Some really thought-provoking ideas in this blog. I really liked the focus on engaging with those groups that are too often overlooked in these kinds of discussions - and the way that this might go from a principle to a practice, and also the focus on a rotation of mini-publics, rather than a permanent or semi-permanent body. I do wonder, however, what kind of form this deliberate democracy approaches might take, and how that form might be best shaped to reflect young peoples lives and their engagement with the world today (and not older views of what society might think this should look like).