Community Wealth Building in the Victorian Goldfields

There has been increasing interest in revamping our economic systems to better support individual and collective health and wellbeing and distribute wealth more evenly, while doing more to protect the planet. In today’s post, recently-appointed VicHealth (@VicHealth) postdoctoral research fellow Melissa Kennedy of Deakin University (@DeakinSeed) explains what Community Wealth Building (CWB) is and how a recent Masterclass in the Victorian Goldfields region explored its transformative potential.

Innovation, Finance and economicsPower to Persuade9 April 2025economy, Place, financial wellbeing, innovation

The shifting sands of community needs: Re-thinking place based interventions

The controversies of the 2016 census now seem in the distant past but the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is busy collating the numbers from last year’s eventful census and are preparing for the release of data over the coming months. Stephen Gow, from specialist health system advisory service Open Advisory Pty Ltd, considers how the census powers our understanding of the notion of “place”.

Creating using evidence, Innovation, Policy and governancePower to Persuade13 June 2017Population health, Data, Disadvantage, Place

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