Who Decides: Shared decision-making in practice

There’s no one “right” way to implement share decision-making, so in this episode, you’re going to hear three. A community-level initiative in regional Victoria, a state-level disaster authority in Queensland, and a philanthropic organisation tackling some of Australia’s most entrenched challenges…

Who Decides: Building relationships and trust

Shared decision making is all about relationships. It brings together diverse groups of people, who can start with power imbalances between them and a complicated history behind them. For shared decision making to work, you need to build a foundation of trust - otherwise difficult decisions and ha…

Who Decides: Sharing power

Some of the most complex challenges facing communities today don’t sit neatly within one organisation, one sector, or one level of government. Solving those problems requires something that doesn’t come easily: sharing power. Do what does sharing power looks like in practice and why is it so impor…

Who Decides: What is shared decision-making?

For too long, decisions about communities have been made without them. Shared decision making offers a different way – where communities aren’t just consulted, but are empowered to shape the services and systems affecting their lives.  You will hear from the residents of Millgrove in regional Vict…

Introducing Who Decides: A new series about shared decision-making

What happens when the people closest to a problem help create the solution? For decades, top-down, one-size-fits-all approaches have failed to meet the needs of diverse communities across Australia. Disadvantage remains entrenched – not because communities lack solutions, but because they’re rarel…