Maranguka Cross Sector Leadership Group
The Maranguka Cross-Sector Leadership Group case study shares the blueprint for how government and non-government organisations can work together in wholly new ways to be accountable to communities leading positive change.
Australian Philanthropy Awards
In July we were honoured to receive the Philanthropy Australia Award for the Best Large Grant 2019 alongside Maranguka Justice Reinvestment and Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation for Maranguka’s Justice Reinvestment Strategy.
Major breakthrough for Bourke
For the past five years Bourke NSW has been modelling First Nations self-governance, empowering the community to coordinate the right mix and timing of services through an Aboriginal owned and led community hub.
Bourke – A beacon of hope
Maranguka Justice Reinvestment recently launched a report by KPMG that shows community led changes in Bourke generated $3 million of savings in 2017 by reducing violence, increasing school retention and reducing offences.
#WorthASecondChance
Dusseldorp Forum is supporting Jesuit Social Services in their campaign to improve youth justice in Victoria.
Urgent juvenile justice reform
”Perpetuating a failed system that hardens young people, does not reduce reoffending and fails to rehabilitate young lives and set them on a new course, is a step backwards.”
Bourke celebrates
On 8 December the Dusseldorp Forum team and members of our board jumped on a short flight to Dubbo then hit the long road to Bourke, NSW to join the community in celebrating Community and Philanthropy Partnership Week (CPPW) 2016.
Backing Bourke – Four Corners
The shocking abuse of Aboriginal children in our justice system, exposed by Four Corners in Australia’s Shame, has sparked a national debate and posed a glaring challenge to us all – there must be a better way.
First community rising: Justice for Bourke
Something is happening in Bourke in northwest NSW. It is not immediately apparent in the town’s flat, main road, or on the red grassy plains, or even under the twisted Coolabah trees on the olive-brown Darling River.
Bourke community approach lowers crime rate
Since the beginning of 2016 there seems to have been a renewed wave of energy around the crisis facing Australia and the rate at which its young Indigenous people are imprisoned.
