Citizen Assembly 

Conversations at the Crossroads invites you to join Australia’s first Citizens Assembly open to all Australians!

The topic for the first event will be the proposed plan to build Nuclear Power Stations across Australia. Explore and discuss in groups from the comfort of your own home.

AN IMPORTANT NEW INITIATIVE

Conversation at the Crossroads (C@C) is preparing to convene an online Citizen Assembly to consider the proposal made by the Coalition parties to build seven nuclear power plants across Australia, a Coalition policy commitment announced by Peter Dutton last June, and since reaffirmed more than once.

This will be our most ambitious attempt yet to bring a significant number of Australians sharing a wide range of views to consider an issue of major importance to our common future. This will be a pilot scheme in deliberative democracy, to which other groups and organisations as well as interested individuals will be invited to contribute in various ways, and which we hope to scale up in the months and years ahead.

Ethics in Turbulent Times

Join us at an international series designed to stimulate, inform, and upskill. A mix of lectures, contributions by leading experts, Q&A, debates, conversation in small groups, role play, and other exercises. Conducted by Professor Joseph Camilleri.

The six-week series designed to:

  • Make sense of a polarised world in which many feel isolated, vulnerable, uncertain about the future.

  • Grapple with difficult questions: In a post-truth world do we still have ethical standards? We speak loosely of integrity and accountability but what exactly do we mean? Do our governments, professions, businesses, schools, universities, churches, or sporting codes behave ethically? What if they don’t?

  • Explore how ethics can help us deal with climate change, cruelty to animals, discrimination, hunger, war, or any of the unresolved crises of our turbulent age.

Together we have accomplished much since we started in late 2020. Three years later, we’re aiming to do much more. Which is why we’re launching this appeal.

We need to raise $20,550 in two months. We are confident that with your help we can reach, perhaps exceed our target

Our Mission is to bring people back together, to be inspired and energised, and to learn from each other.

Through thoughtful and informed conversation, we equip people with the necessary tools, skills and understanding to become drivers of change within their communities.

Our vision is to create diverse communities on a local and global level that empower more people to engage in the social, environmental and political challenges of our time. 

We’re an independent, forward-looking network committed to advancing the wellbeing of people and nature through conversation. A vibrant national conversation is vital if we are to address the critical issues of our time. Through thoughtful and informed conversation we can make full use of our diversity, reimagine the future, and set new priorities for the environment, society, economy and politics.

Upcoming events

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