The 2008 Community Leadership Oration: At Home and Away: Now more than ever, global issues need local community leadership

Added on 17th Jun 2008

At its very best, localism tailors solutions for the specific contours of local reality. It's humanising, accessible, self-empowering. It involves and it dignifies.

Kate Gilmore

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Past Conferences

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2020 — 10 speeches

Connection, Creativity, Community: Finding Hope in a Climate of Crisis

2019 — 9 speeches

Get Angry. Then Get Organised.

2018 — 11 speeches

Activating community leadership to combat equality

2017 — 11 speeches

What makes healthy communities?

2016 — 9 speeches

It's the Community, Stupid: Putting people and the planet back in the picture

2015 — 12 speeches

Think Differently: ideas that change communities

2014 — 11 speeches

The Lucky Country Conference

2013 — 9 speeches

I'm Alright Jack: Reclaiming community in a selfish world

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