The Community Challenge: Building pathways towards true social inclusion

Love it or loathe it, Australia is changing: politically; environmentally; socially and economically - there is no escaping the impacts of globalisation.

Globalisation has changed the way we live, the way we organise our work in communities, our social groupings, our very way of thinking.

It has created stresses and strains, a sense of powerlessness and feelings of loss of control; but also excitement at previously unimagined opportunities, at the new ways of thinking and doing and creating, of new pathways towards true social inclusion.

If we don't get involved we will continue to be passive in the face of trends that most of us had no part in creating and that are already having an enormous impact on every facet of our individual and collective lives.