Who Decides: What needs to change

Shared decision-making can transform communities. But a persistent tension keeps bubbling up: the structure of government can make the process harder. Funding models, accountability requirements, legislative constraints. These structures exists for a reason, but can co-exist with shared decision m…

Who Decides: Accountability

Anyone can run a good meeting. The harder question is what happens afterwards. How do you keep communities informed, hold yourself to your commitments, and build the kind of trust that survives setbacks? We explore the ‘crunchy’ but essential work of accountability in shared decision making. Jo A…

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…