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Melbourne will stage a special event in October devoted to examining how Australians can work together to put in place the right long term policy settings that will ensure our nation’s well being and prosperity into the future, writes Cassandra Goldie, Chief Executive Officer, Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS).

For 60 years, ACOSS and our members across the community sector has sought economic and social change to achieve a fair, just, diverse and sustainable Australia.

We have done this by raising the voices of people …

Over the last 10 years, Orchard Consulting group has been negotiating enterprise software deployment… from the buyer’s side of the table. This means Orchard Consulting knows the inside story and decision making factors that most clients will never share publicly, writes director Donna Orchard.

We have spent 17 years in full time, in-house corporate software and technology system expert-roles and know how implementation really works from the inside of a large organisation.

Every single day, our work has been connecting organisations to the right software vendors. …

Danielle Dal Cortivo is the co-founder of raize the roof, a volunteer-led organisation that helps children who are “a little less lucky” and CEO of Asthma Foundation ACT and Victoria. She is this week’s Changemaker.

Asthma affects as many as 2.5 million Australians – around 11 per cent of the population – and kills 400 people a year.

As head of Asthma Foundations ACT and Victoria, Dal Cortivo works to ensure the public understands the condition and fights for progress on treatment, education and one …

Need to get off the hamster wheel? Upcoming Melbourne workshops by leading capacity building consultant Alison Coughlan have been designed for professionals engaged in purpose-driven work to help translate passion and purpose into impact.

The hamster wheel is a familiar metaphor. If only it existed in our lives purely as a useful metaphor for us to reflect on and learn from. That wheel has been a big part of our reality as we have spent many a year peddling away… if only we could do more… …

The award-winning George the Farmer story app is helping to teach a new generation of Australians about life on the farm and where food comes from, writes Wendy Williams in this week’s Spotlight on Social Enterprise.

George the Farmer is everyone’s friend. And along with his wife Dr Ruby, an agronomist who is “as talented as she is beautiful”, he has become one of Australia’s best loved fictional farming characters.

After being launched in regional South Australia in July 2014 as an interactive story app, the …