Listen to ACFP’s Founder Bronwyn Kelly’s interview with Allan Behm from the Australia Institute about strategies we need if we are to safely navigate a changing world order. Want to know more about Australia Together ? Australia Together is the nation’s first community designed and driven long term, integrated plan for a better future. It’s designed to help Australians make the best future we can imagine in the 2020s a reality by 2050 or sooner. Browse the last Issue of Australia Together - Issu...
Nov 15, 2024•1 hr 5 min
In this episode David Kelly and ACFP’s Founder Bronwyn Kelly talk in depth about how Australians could collaborate to design a universal basic income (UBI) for everyone and how at the same time they can use the process to secure fair tax reforms and reliable funding for all their essential services. Want to know more about Australia Together ? Australia Together is the nation’s first community designed and driven long term, integrated plan for a better future. It’s designed to help Australians m...
Nov 02, 2024•1 hr 5 min
In this episode David Kelly and ACFP’s Founder Bronwyn Kelly talk in depth about the proposal in Australia Together for a National Accord on Wealth, Welfare and Wellbeing. Want to know more about Australia Together ? Australia Together is the nation’s first community designed and driven long term, integrated plan for a better future. It’s designed to help Australians make the best future we can imagine in the 2020s a reality by 2050 or sooner. Browse the last Issue of Australia Together - Issue ...
Oct 26, 2024•58 min
Listen to ACFP’s Founder Bronwyn Kelly’s interview with Ian McAuley about the prospects for restoration of universality in Australia’s health care system. Want to know more about Australia Together ? Australia Together is the nation’s first community designed and driven long term, integrated plan for a better future. It’s designed to help Australians make the best future we can imagine in the 2020s a reality by 2050 or sooner. Browse the last Issue of Australia Together - Issue No. 8 - here . Th...
Oct 18, 2024•42 min
Listen to ACFP’s Founder Bronwyn Kelly’s new interview with Julian Cribb from the Council for the Human Future about the rights we need if we are to provide a safe future on this planet for ourselves, our children and our grandchildren. Want to know more about Australia Together ? Australia Together is the nation’s first community designed and driven long term, integrated plan for a better future. It’s designed to help Australians make the best future we can imagine in the 2020s a reality by 205...
Oct 11, 2024•36 min
Listen to ACFP’s Founder Bronwyn Kelly’s interview with one of Australia’s most prominent political scientists, Professor Mark Beeson, about our prospects for getting world leaders and our own leaders to cooperate seriously to achieve international peace and environmental sustainability in the age of climate change. Want to know more about Australia Together ? Australia Together is the nation’s first community designed and driven long term, integrated plan for a better future. It’s designed to h...
Oct 04, 2024•40 min
Listen to ACFP’s Executive Director David Kelly talk with Founder Bronwyn Kelly about the Vision for Australia Together in this Episode of the Australia Together Podcast. Want to know more about Australia Together ? Australia Together is the nation’s first community designed and driven long term, integrated plan for a better future. It’s designed to help Australians make the best future we can imagine in the 2020s a reality by 2050 or sooner. Browse the latest Issue of Australia Together - Issue...
Sep 27, 2024•42 min
Episode 50: On progress with Australia Together and strategies for electoral reform in Australia. This is the final episode in ACFP's series of conversations with a range of inspiring Australians about Targets and Strategies in Australia Together . Australia Together is the nation’s first long term, integrated plan for a better future for everyone. It is being progressively developed by Australians for Australians so that we can tell our governments what we want them to do for us as a cohesive, ...
Jun 21, 2024•25 min
Introduction from Bronwyn Kelly, Founder of Australian Community Futures Planning: In this series of the Australia Together Podcast we’re interviewing a range of people about the issues we can resolve by developing a long term integrated plan for a better future for Australia. We’re looking into a draft of such a plan - Australia Together - and canvassing views about strategies that are or should be included in it. Last week I published an article summarising the key strategies currently in Aust...
Jun 11, 2024•35 min
Introduction from Bronwyn Kelly: In this series of the Australia Together Podcast we’re interviewing a range of people about the issues we can resolve by developing a long term integrated plan for a better future for Australia. We’re looking into a draft of such a plan - Australia Together - and canvassing views about strategies that are or should be included in it. Last week I published an article summarising the key strategies currently in Australia Together for achieving peace, security and i...
May 27, 2024•40 min
Introduction by Bronwyn Kelly In this series of the Australia Together Podcast we’re interviewing a range of people about the issues we can resolve by developing a long term integrated plan for a better future for Australia. We’re looking into a draft of such a plan – Australia Together . Last week I published an article summarising the key strategies in Australia Together for stopping climate change. In today’s episode I interview prominent science writer and researcher Julian Cribb on some key...
May 20, 2024•33 min
In this series of the Australia Together Podcast we’re interviewing a range of people about the issues we can resolve by developing a long term integrated plan for a better future for Australia. We’re looking into a draft of such a plan – Australia Together . In today’s episode David Kelly interviews Bronwyn Kelly about one of the big ticket items in the plan – the need for constitutional reform. Bronwyn talks about how Australia’s current Constitution is a barrier to democracy in Australia but ...
May 13, 2024•18 min
Introduction from Bronwyn Kelly: Australia Together is the nation’s first long term, integrated plan for a better future for everyone. It is being progressively developed by Australians for Australians so that we can tell our governments what we want them to do for us as a cohesive, democratic community. The plan is in its starting draft phase but it already contains data and information about more than 300 indicators of our current wellbeing, environmental health, economic strength and resilien...
May 06, 2024•20 min
Introduction from Bronwyn Kelly: Australians are due to go to the polls in 2025 to elect their 48th federal parliament. Australian Community Futures Planning (ACFP) is working to ensure it’s easy for everyone to find the factual information they need to decide whether the current parliament has been working well for them or not, and then decide who they’ll vote for in the next parliament. The information they need will be provided in The State of Australia 2025 . This is an independent report to...
Apr 29, 2024•15 min
Find the full transcript: Episodes 40, 41, 42 & 43: Saving Australian democracy and sovereignty by building a new Constitution - An essay in four parts by Bronwyn Kelly. Introduction from Bronwyn Kelly: Subscribers familiar with my writing will be aware of my most recent book, The People’s Constitution: the path to empowerment of Australians in a 21st century democracy . I’d like to thank readers for their positive comments. But now it is time to think about how we might begin to make a peop...
Dec 09, 2023•50 min
Find the full transcript: Episodes 40, 41, 42 & 43: Saving Australian democracy and sovereignty by building a new Constitution - An essay in four parts by Bronwyn Kelly. Introduction from Bronwyn Kelly: Subscribers familiar with my writing will be aware of my most recent book, The People’s Constitution: the path to empowerment of Australians in a 21st century democracy . I’d like to thank readers for their positive comments. But now it is time to think about how we might begin to make a peop...
Dec 02, 2023•43 min
Find the full transcript: Episodes 40, 41, 42 & 43: Saving Australian democracy and sovereignty by building a new Constitution - An essay in four parts by Bronwyn Kelly. Introduction from Bronwyn Kelly: Subscribers familiar with my writing will be aware of my most recent book, The People’s Constitution: the path to empowerment of Australians in a 21st century democracy . I’d like to thank readers for their positive comments. But now it is time to think about how we might begin to make a peop...
Nov 25, 2023•23 min
Find the full transcript: Episodes 40, 41, 42 & 43: Saving Australian democracy and sovereignty by building a new Constitution - An essay in four parts by Bronwyn Kelly. Introduction from Bronwyn Kelly: Subscribers and others familiar with my writing will be aware of my most recent book, The People’s Constitution: the path to empowerment of Australians in a 21st century democracy . I’d like to thank readers for their positive comments. But now it is time to think about how we might begin to ...
Nov 18, 2023•22 min
Introduction from Bronwyn Kelly: On 28 September 2023, representing Australian Community Futures Planning, I addressed the federal Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights as a witness in its Inquiry into Australia’s Human Rights Framework. I made a case in support of a Human Rights Act but stated that the Constitution is a barrier to security of the human rights of Australians. After my appearance at the Inquiry, Indigenous independent Senator Lidia Thorpe asked me two Questions on Notice....
Nov 01, 2023•19 min
Introduction from Bronwyn Kelly: On 28 September 2023, representing Australian Community Futures Planning, I addressed the federal Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights as a witness in its Inquiry into Australia’s Human Rights Framework. I made a case in support of a Human Rights Act but stated that the Constitution is a barrier to security of the human rights of Australians. After my appearance at the Inquiry, Indigenous independent Senator Lidia Thorpe asked me two Questions on Notice....
Oct 28, 2023•24 min
Introduction from Bronwyn Kelly: On 28 September 2023, representing Australian Community Futures Planning, I addressed the federal Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights as a witness in its Inquiry into Australia’s Human Rights Framework. I made a case in support of a Human Rights Act but stated that the Constitution is a barrier to security of the human rights of Australians. After my appearance at the Inquiry, Indigenous independent Senator Lidia Thorpe asked me the following two Questi...
Oct 25, 2023•15 min
On 28 September 2023, ACFP's Founder Bronwyn Kelly addressed the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights in their inquiry into Australia’s Human Rights Framework. She made a case in support of a Human Rights Act but stated that the Constitution is a barrier to security of the human rights of Australians. Dr Kelly testified that executive governments can - and they do - all too easily reduce or revoke human rights because rights are not enshrined in the Constitution. But with a process of ...
Oct 18, 2023•24 min
In Episode 35 Bronwyn Kelly reads the final chapter of her book, The People's Constitution: the path to empowerment of Australians in a 21st century democracy . She states that: Australia can establish a safe and prosperous future for all its peoples but only if it reconstitutes itself as an inclusive, full democracy – one in which the people have their rightful share of power and can establish a much better relationship of trust and productive collaboration with those they elect to represent th...
Oct 07, 2023•27 min
In Episode 34 Bronwyn Kelly reads Chapter 9 Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4 of her book, The People's Constitution: the path to empowerment of Australians in a 21st century democracy . She discusses the democratic processes by which Australians might alter their Constitution and examines potential obstructions to those processes. Bronwyn then suggests options for overcoming these obstructions. She also highlights the fact that time is running out for Australians to secure their rights and freedoms and to se...
Oct 04, 2023•46 min
In Episode 33 Bronwyn Kelly reads Chapter 8 Parts 5, 6 and 7 of her book, The People's Constitution: the path to empowerment of Australians in a 21st century democracy . In Part 5 she discusses the last of four essential changes to the Constitution - the need to eliminate the clauses that enable racism. She recounts how the group most affected by these clauses - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples - has encountered difficulties in developing ways to safely remove them without increasin...
Sep 30, 2023•35 min
In Episode 32 Bronwyn Kelly reads Chapter 8 Part 4 of her book, The People's Constitution: the path to empowerment of Australians in a 21st century democracy . She discusses the third of four essential changes to the Constitution - the need to limit the powers of the prime minister in relation to decisions on war. The suggestion is that this power should be shared with the people through the parliaments they elect. There should be a clear demonstration that any decision to engage in war is in th...
Sep 24, 2023•23 min
In Episode 31 Bronwyn Kelly reads Chapter 8 Parts 1, 2 and 3 of her book, The People's Constitution: the path to empowerment of Australians in a 21st century democracy . In Part 1 she points out how most suggestions about reform of our governance focus on mechanical alterations of the existing system. However, these don’t offer much, if anything, in terms of the possibility of political inclusion. Nevertheless, there are some mechanical reforms that are essential. In Part 2 Bronwyn discusses the...
Sep 20, 2023•20 min
In Episode 30 Bronwyn Kelly reads Chapter 7 Parts 7, 8 and 9 of her book, The People's Constitution: the path to empowerment of Australians in a 21st century democracy . In Part 7 she states that the purpose of enshrining an Australian people’s national voice in the constitution is to enable Australians to develop terms of trust with the parliaments they elect. She suggests there is likely to be no other way to encourage a parliament to grant an appropriate share of power to the people in their ...
Sep 16, 2023•34 min
In Episode 29 Bronwyn Kelly reads Chapter 7 Parts 5 and 6 of her book, The People's Constitution: the path to empowerment of Australians in a 21st century democracy . In Part 5 Bronwyn refers to the fact that there is a problem of injustice in the Australian state arising from the brutal dispossession of First Nations. In the Uluru Statement from the Heart, however, Australians have been offered the chance to restore justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. In this regard, First Natio...
Sep 13, 2023•33 min
In Episode 28 Bronwyn Kelly reads Chapter 7 Part 4 of her book, The People's Constitution: the path to empowerment of Australians in a 21st century democracy . In this section she sets out how it has been necessary to adapt and expand the process of Integrated Planning and Reporting already legislated for local councils so that it can function at the national level and can be used efficiently by any Australian wishing to participate in National Integrated Planning and Reporting (National IP&...
Sep 09, 2023•19 min
