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 rarely asked what they need.

Across Australia, that is changing. Communities are bringing together local leaders, government, service providers, and philanthropists to design and fund solutions that actually work over the long term.

Making Place Matter is a podcast from Partnerships for Local Action and Community Empowerment (PLACE), a national organisation that champions community-led approaches to social and economic challenges.

This season, Who Decides, is all about shared decision making - a foundation of place-based work. You'll hear what that process really looks like, what gets in the way, and what becomes possible when communities are genuinely at the table.

Keep up to date with Making Place Matter: Who Decides by following PLACE on LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube.

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Making Place Matter is a podcast from PLACE, produced by Deadset Studios.

PLACE acknowledges Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and recognises their continuing connection to lands, waters skies, and communities. We pay our deepest respects to Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and the land on which this show was made.

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