61. Spn be different, particularly in wealthy nations like Australia which must determininghow the world, nations, regions, cities and communities could respond http://wwwistp.murdoch.edu.au/community/spn/spn_pap3.html

Sustainability Planning Network Sustainable Cities: A perspective from the Australian State of the Environment Report by Peter Newman, Associate Professor in City Policy, Director, Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy , Murdoch University, Western Australia. Introduction This paper will relate the concept of sustainability as defined by global politics to cities. It will use an innovative approach recently developed as part of a major report to the Australian government - the Australian State of the Environment Report, 1996. Sustainability And Global Politics Academic definitions of sustainable development, or sustainability for short, are never very satisfying as the concept has not come from there. It has come from a global political process that has tried to bring together, simultaneously, the most powerful needs of our time: the need for economic development to overcome poverty, the need for environmental protection of air, water, soil and biodiversity upon which we all ultimately depend, and the need for cultural diversity and processes to allow local communities to express their values.

62. Sister Cities International communities designated in blue are Members of Sister cities International. Community,Website, Sister City, Website. Adelaide, South Australia, Austin, Texas, http://www.sister-cities.org/sci/directory/Oceania/Australia

Online Directory: Australia, Oceania Communities designated in blue are Members of Sister Cities International. Community Website Sister City Website Adelaide, South Australia Austin, Texas Albury Merced, California Beaufort sur Doron, New South Wales Beaufort, North Carolina Berwick Springfield, Ohio Blue Mountain Flagstaff, Arizona Brisbane Brisbane, California Cairns, Queensland Scottsdale, Arizona Colac Walker, Michigan Darwin Anchorage, Alaska Delatite Shire Vail, Colorado Gold Coast Fort Lauderdale, Florida Goulburn El Cajon, California Greater Bendigo Los Altos, California Hawkesbury Shire Temple City, California Holdfast Bay New Orleans, Louisiana Lismore Eau Claire, Wisconsin Lithgow Bluefield, West Virginia Melbourne Boston, Massachusetts Mildura Upland, California Millicent Seguin, Texas Mona Vale Wilmette, Illinois Murray Bridge, South Australia Laredo, Texas Newcastle Arcadia, California Orange Orange, Ca, California Perth, Australian Capital Territory San Diego, California Perth, Australian Capital Territory Houston, Texas Playford Fremont, California

63. Australian Sister Cities Association - Www.asca.asn.au understanding and friendship” has been attractive to community minded local TodayAustralian cities have nearly 470 Sister City Agreements throughout the http://www.asca.asn.au/about.htm

Introducing the ASCA As the name denotes, the Australian Sister Cities Association is an association of towns, shires, cities, ports and even States that have a Sister City relationship. It keeps a register of all Australian affiliations, of which it is aware, and encourages their extension. ASCA also takes an active role in matching cities in Australia with cities, both from overseas and within Australia, seeking a Sister City relationship. ASCA is also the link between an Australian Sister City and the many projects and ideas that have been experienced here and abroad. Many municipalities in Australia have at least one Sister City relationship with a town or city overseas, or within Australia, and many have multiple arrangements. The objective of ASCA is to provide an umbrella of support and to promote these affiliations. ASCA also aims to provide a forum for cultural, economic and educational interchange between communities and to encourage friendship, co-operation and understanding to improve peaceful coexistence worldwide.

64. TravelSmart Australia - News And Events It will be held throughout Australia on Friday 2 April 2004 Further information oflife of citizens in the public spaces of cities and communities of all http://www.travelsmart.gov.au/events.html

NEWS AND EVENTS Special Cities for Climate Protection™(CCP™) Event - Year of the Built Environment International Speakers Seminar and CCP™ Workshop from 24 May to 3 June in Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. For information: www3.iclei.org/ccp-au/tdm/pdf/environ.pdf Sustainable Developments Public Seminar Tours 2004 John Doggart, one of Europe's leading experts on sustainability is coming to Australia to present world's best practice for environmentally sustainable mixed use developments. Dates and locations include: Perth 24 May, Darwin 25 May, Adelaide 27 May, Canberra 28 May, Melbourne 31 May, Hobart 1 June, Sydney 2 June, and Brisbane 3 June. For ticket information: www.architecture.com.au . For more information: www.greenhouse.gov.au/energyefficiency/building/susthouse/index.htm Walk Safely to School Day An annual event when all Primary School children will be encouraged to walk and commute safely to school. It will be held throughout Australia on Friday 2 April 2004 Further information: www.walk.com.au

65. Poetry On The Peaks By leaving the big australian cities you find yourself off the beaten track veryquickly In the quiet gardens of the community hall we lie around in the perfect http://www.dialoguepoetry.org/mountain_mt_irvine.htm

Mt Irvine About Mt. Irvine Reading Early on Sunday March 17th, a group of Sydney poets, armed with barbecue food and poetry, set out for Mt Irvine, a remote mountain peak (formed by an upthrust of volcanic basalt) in the Blue Mountains of NSW, Australia. The destination was the Mt Irvine Community Hall designed by Bill Lucas, architect, teacher, inventor and philosopher who had died six months previously at the age of 76 and whose innovative ideas, which encompassed not only architecture but also communities and the arts, are still sorely missed. It had been Bill's dream that his buildings serve poets and poetry as well as localities and communities. He had often spoken of his enthusiasm for the United Nations. Bill Lucas' Community Hall seemed in every way a perfect location for the Dialogue through Poetry 2002. After a long drive we settled into the Mt Irvine Community Hall, which turned out to be a well-designed, low-lying building which was obviously the pride of the community it served as it was clean and well-maintained and had a much-used feel to it. The locals had provided the makings of a fire, so we settled in for a day of conversation, poetry reading, eating, drinking, and sharing.Our readings attracted interest from residents of Mt Irvine. We discovered quite a few poetry lovers among them. We promised to return to share our poetry with the whole community.World Poetry Day in the Year of Mountains was a special day for us which we will long remember as one of those days where many random elements fuse to create an extraordinary moment.

66. Philosophy.com: Globalization & Local Communities We know the impact it has on regional Australia and the political expression of thisnegativity What has been the impact of local communities in our cities? http://www.sauer-thompson.com/archives/philosophy/001138.html

Philosophy.Com 'An aphorism, properly stamped and molded, has not been "deciphered" when it has simply been read; rather one has then to begin its interpretation, for which is required an art of interpretation.' Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals Main November 25, 2003 In my search for material on the negative impact that globalization is having on local/regional communities in Australia I came across Craig Bellamy's milkbar.com.au Let us say that by globalization we understand the process in which national economies throughout the world are becoming globally interdependent. This push to interdependency, currently through Free Trade Agreements, is introducing a new form of relationship between economy, state, and society has been called the information economy or the networked society. This period of transformation that we are living through is a period of dramatic social change that is as great a transformation as the earlier period of industrialization. So how does it affect local communites that we live in? We know the impact it has on regional Australia and the political expression of this negativity with Pauline Hanson, One Nation populism and the constraints on social democracy.

67. Ecologically Sustainable Development: Useful Links australian Government Programs for Local Governments. Stories; European SustainableCities and Towns Sustainable communities Resource Package Ontario Rountable http://www.deh.gov.au/esd/links/

Skip Navigation WHAT'S NEW CONTACTS COMMENTS ... SEARCH ECOLOGICALLY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Useful Links Go back to: DEH Home ESD Links ... Home Ecologically Sustainable Development Links This page lists links to a number of different organisations. If you would like to suggest additional links please contact us Conferences and Events Sustainability Networks and Discussion Groups State Government Sites ... Non-Government Organisations Conferences and Events 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development Australia's preparatory process for WSSD 2002 Sustaining Our Communities Conference Sustaining Our Communities Declaration ... 1997 Pathways to Sustainability Conference - Newcastle Declaration Sustainability Networks and Discussion Groups Environs Australia Newsletter and Discussion Group National Councils for Sustainable Development - Promote and implement sustainable development Regional Australia Discussion Groups Sustainable Development International - Has a variety of news stories and resources, including some very useful international links Sustainability Web Ring - Managed by the Sustainable Development Communications Network, contains nearly 200 sustainability links on a wide range of topics

68. Year Of The Built Environment 2004 It focuses on the people behind the buildings, including the community at large Buthow can australian cities balance the demands of future development with what http://www.ybe2004.qld.gov.au/about/themes.asp

Access keys Skip to primary navigation Skip to secondary navigation Skip to content ... Contact us Search: About YBE 2004 Get involved Activities Resource centre ... FAQ's Themes Home About Themes YBE 2004 Themes There are seven fundamental themes that will guide all YBE 2004 activities throughout the year. These themes are: Building Regional Communities Towards Sustainable Communities Healthy Environments Excellence in Building ... Design for All 1. Building Regional Communities Our regional communities play important roles in the Australian economy and way of life. They also face many built environment challenges. They are reliant on ongoing infrastructure development such as telecommunications, planning and water supply. Without, regional communities have little chance of developing and maintaining a strategy for growth. Access to services, such as communications, the lack of investment in quality-built environments and sometimes even climatic extremes, challenge the economic fabric, community and social ties. Many regional communities also suffer from a drift of young people and families to larger centres, offering greater employment and education opportunities. An ageing population is left behind.

69. Year Of The Built Environment 2004:Celebrating Sustainable Built Environments In a move to encourage greater community participation in planning our cities, suburbs,towns and regions, the australian Government has proclaimed 2004 as the http://www.builtenvironment2004.org.au/ybe/media_centre/kempopeningstatement/

About the ybe Media Centre Events get involved ... Media Centre Celebrating Sustainable Built Environments Celebrating Sustainable Built Environments Media Release Commonwealth Minister for Environment and Heritage Dr David Kemp 15 December 2003 In a move to encourage greater community participation in planning our cities, suburbs, towns and regions, the Australian Government has proclaimed 2004 as the Year of the Built Environment. His Excellency the Governor-General, Major General Michael Jeffery, AC, CVO, MC (Retd), the Patron-in-Chief of the Year of the Built Environment 2004, officially launched the Year today on the construction site for "30 The Bond" - the first office building in Australia being built by Lend Lease (and new tenant) for the Deutsche Office Trust to a five-star Australian Building Greenhouse Rating and one that incorporates innovative environmentally-driven design features. Speaking at the launch, the Australian Government Minister for the Environment and Heritage, Dr David Kemp, said a key focus of the Year of the Built Environment 2004 was to encourage development of a built environment which is sustainable, energy efficient, safe, healthy and comfortable.

70. Safe Design [Local Government Crime Prevention] at the conference Safer communities Strategic Directions in PDF 117kB) CPTED Project,cities of Mithcum and Unley Crime Prevention Program, South Australia; http://www.aic.gov.au/research/localgovt/design.html

Advanced search Home About Contact ... Local government Local government crime prevention Safe design Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) Public events Safety cameras Public transport ... Conference papers See also General crime prevention and safety Community renewal strategy Department of Housing, New South Wales Improving public safety Directory of New South Wales Government Crime Prevention Programs (CPPD) Public safety National Crime Prevention, Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department Safer communities: strategic directions in urban planning (conference papers) Australian Institute of Criminology, in conjunction with the Victorian Council Against Community Violence Safe routes pilot project (PDF 4.01MB) ACT Planning and Land Management Safety audit program Queensland Police Service The safe women project Department for Women, New South Wales Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) City of Melbourne's approaches to addressing safety issues in public toilets Rebecca Roebuck and Phillipa Dwyer. Presented at the Crime Prevention Conference, 12-13 September 2002 Crime, community, environment, art and design. A CEAD and CPTED preventive partnership

71. CCI - The David Engwicht Story Red Sneaker Week in Brisbane, Australia – a program great challenge as workingwith cities to overcome forces to launch Creative communities International. http://www.lesstraffic.com/EmpoyUs/DEstory.htm

The David Engwicht Story Twelve months later, David authored the now influential Traffic Calming: The Solution to Route 20 and a New Vision for Brisbane. This booklet is widely recognized as having triggered the Traffic Calming revolution in many cities in Australia and North America. This book pushed David into the national and international debate on the future of our cities and their transport. What began to fascinate David was how the design of cities and towns impacts on community life, particularly issues of equity. In 1999 these ideas were published in Street Reclaiming: Creating Livable Streets and Vibrant Communities. It proposed a radical new design process for our streets so they once again become places for community building, places that feed the creative wealth of the city, and places that are the engine-room of a robust local economy. In 1997, David produced the first draft of a yet unpublished book on unlocking creativity. This work on creativity has begun to merge with his traffic and city-design work. Increasingly cities are asking him to work with staff to teach them more creative ways of problem-solving. In Boise Idaho, this creative process resulted in the Neighborhood Pace Car Program. After observing the political and community-participation process in dozens of cities, David sees his next great challenge as working with cities to overcome the limitations imposed on creative decision-making by adversarial forms of politics and flawed community consultation and participation processes. (See The Third Space Project for more details.)

72. YBE Themes - DIPE - NT Government - Australia at the role of all the participants, including the community at large Managing changeis a significant challenge for australian cities as they continue to grow http://www.ipe.nt.gov.au/whatwedo/planning/ybe/themes.html

Where am I? Home ybe 2004 Year of the Built Environment News ... Links Themes Towards Sustainable Communities Building Regional Communities Healthy Environments Excellence in Building ... Design for All Towards Sustainable Communities Sustainable design, planning and construction will be the underlying basis for future development in Australia. Development that improves, rather than degrades the environment is essential. Australia is leading the way in creating communities that work with the natural environment to reduce energy usage, resources and waste. Whether water recycling, public transport systems, sustainable planning principles or construction management, Towards Sustainable Communities will show how to make a difference. Back to Top Building Regional Communities This theme focuses on our regional communities, which play an important role in the Australian economy and way of life. Regional communities face many challenges in the development of liveable and beneficial built environments. Many built environment issues are beyond the immediate control of regional communities and a range of external factors can affect their very viability and existence. Access to services, such as communications, the lack of investment opportunities and climatic extremes may challenge the economic fabric, community and social dynamics in regional areas, directly affecting the quality of the built environment.

73. CDC Australia The 2nd of 3 Think Tanks looking at the future of housing in Australia over thenext The growth of nodal, highdensity mini-cities and communities on the http://www.copper.com.au/cdc/view_article.asp?CID=55&AID=193

74. Community Most have settled in Sydney and Melbourne but there are now Kurdishcommunities in all major australian cities. Return to Main Menu. ÿ http://www.sbs.com.au/radio/kurdish/community.html

Community PROGRAMS BROADCAST TEAM CONTACTS EVENTS The Kurdish-Speaking Community in Australia Arrival and Settlement The first large Kurdish migrant group arrived in Australia from Turkey in the late 1960s. It was part of a long-term movement of Kurds away from their homeland, which had been partitioned under a treaty between the Allied powers and Turkey in the 1920s. Under the agreement, Kurdistan was divided between Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria. The Kurds have never accepted the break-up and as a result there have been many violent uprisings in the Turkish, Iraqi and Iranian parts of Kurdistan. For many years, until the mid-1980s, the majority of the Kurdish community in Australia were from Turkey with smaller numbers from Syria and Lebanon. The first Kurdish community organization was formed in Sydney in 1979. Then in the 1980s, the numbers of Kurds from Iraq and Iran increased under Australia's special Humanitarian Migration Program. Many of them were students and refugees fleeing widespread, violent unrest in their homeland which had resulted in many deaths.

75. Michaelcohen states having as many as about 8,000 Jews. (However, there are establishedJewish communities in all major cities in Australia.). http://www.jewishaustralia.com/communityhistory.htm

Australian Jewry: An Overview This article is adapted from the Asia-Pacific Survival Guide for the Jewish Traveller by Michael Cohen, Asia-Pacific Jewish Association, Melbourne, 1988 THE FIRST JEWS DAY SCHOOLS 19TH CENTURY TERTIARY ... ISRAEL THE FIRST JEWS The first Jews came to Australia literally on the first day of European settlement on the continent – 26 January 1788. Among the 827 convicts on the English First Fleet who began Australia’s European settlement was a small number of Jewish convicts , estimated by historians at between eight and 14 , transported from England to Botany Bay, near Sydney, for relatively trivial crimes. The first free Jewish settler to arrive in Australia, however, came in The first Jewish religious society in Australia, a burial society, began in and the first Jewish religious service took place about the same time. Organised Jewish religious life in Australia began in the in Sydney, with the formation of the first permanent congregation. The first synagogue, Beth Tephilah, was established in . By the mid-nineteenth century, an organised Jewish community existed in Sydney and in several country towns in New South Wales. Communities also developed contemporaneously in 1840 and, too, in the remaining colonies.

76. Discovering The Australian Way The progressive australian cities. OK so we have learnt about the macropicture, now how about a nice little bit of community focus. http://www.gwb.com.au/gwb/oz.html

Discover the Australian way G'day Welcome to the greatest island on earth, with one of the world's most affluent, diverse and stable communities where terrorism and other nasties are definitely NOT a way of life. This is Australia. The Australian Government , always at the forefront of technology changes in our country, explore cyberspace with their electronic mouthpiece. If you are interested in trivia, here is some Australian trivia for you... However, at the moment, the Australian Republic is a major political issue which has taken a back seat since John Howard took over the position of Prime Minister following the Coalition's defeat of the sitting Labor Party in March 1996. The Australian States Australia is made up of a number of states, the largest of which, Western Australia, would comfortably fit half of Europe- with a population of just over 1,500,000 people. Wow.. no wonder we are accused of going walkabout.. Queensland , affectionately known as the "sunshine state", is the fastest growing part of OZ and certainly worth a visit if you are on the global trot. (For movie buffs... Paul Hogan who played Crocodile Dundee lives here). The garden state of Victoria has established VicNet to provide that community with access to the Internet. Some fabulous

77. UNSW: The University Of New South Wales - Sydney Australia - News - Low Income E annually between australian capital cities and nonmetropolitan areas. Based on1999-2000 figures provided by the Department of Family and Community Services http://www.unsw.edu.au/news/pad/articles/2004/may/Greener_pastures.html

CONTACTS LIBRARY CAMPUS MAP SITE MAP ... UNSW Advertising Low income earners find greener pastures 10 May 2004 Housing costs and lifestyle factors are persuading low-income earners to leave Sydney but most are more satisfied with a simpler country life, a new report has found. Over the past three years, researchers from the University of New South Wales and University of Adelaide have been studying the flow of income-support recipients to and from Sydney and Adelaide. In the first study, on the move from city to country, the researchers set out to examine the common assumption - particularly among governments that housing costs are forcing low-income earners out of cities. The final report found that while housing costs are a significant trigger for moving to the country, lifestyle and personal considerations are equally important. In fact, 72 percent say they experienced a marked improvement in lifestyle and satisfaction with their surroundings after relocating. Every year thousands of income-support recipients - the unemployed, single parents, disability and aged pensioners - move annually between Australian capital cities and non-metropolitan areas. Based on 1999-2000 figures provided by the Department of Family and Community Services, 11,538 people left non-metropolitan NSW for Sydney in that period while 16,128 left Sydney for country NSW. In SA, 6,134 people left non-metropolitan areas for Adelaide while 5,680 left Adelaide for country SA.

78. Australia - Japan Art Exhibitions Initiative: Shimai Toshi Shimai Toshi features four of Australia s most accomplished contemporary visual ofgifts between two regional sister cities and communities Penrith and http://www.asialink.unimelb.edu.au/arts/japan/en/indicium.htm

Fujieda City Museum Opens November 2, 2004 Artists : Brook Andrew, Michael Butler, Prins (a.k.a Haro) and Regina Walter The City of Penrith, near Sydney, and Fujieda City in Japan's Shizuoka Prefecture are sister cities. This relationship has been developed since 1984 through cultural, social and sporting exchanges. The exhibition Shimai Toshi has been developed by Penrith Regional Gallery in collaboration with Fujieda City to celebrate the 20th anniversary of this relationship. Shimai Toshi features four of Australia's most accomplished contemporary visual artists, Brook Andrew, Michael Butler, Prins (a.k.a. Haro) and Regina Walter. Taking its premise from the term 'Shimai Toshi' (giving of gifts between sisters) Shimai Toshi proposes the symbolic offering of gifts between two regional sister cities and communities - Penrith and Fujieda. Deceptively decorative and lush the installation-based exhibition offers displays' of filial affection, shared experience and collective critique. Intended to blend and highlight seemingly differing and highly individualised modes and methodologies of contemporary practice the exhibition also intends the examination of cultural synergy and similarity between Australia and Japan.

79. Bryan Moulds Outlines A Plan For An Urban Policy Contract For Australia - On Lin Health and ageing communities; Transportation; Power/energy; Sustainability; Livability place making and design New Economy cities for Australia that are http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=1963

80. Sustainable Cities And Campus Communities Transportation A Alternative Transportation Systems Strengthen communities Copenhagen, Denmark toother South American cities of its 1999); In Perth, Australia, when freeways http://www.eeexchange.org/sustainability/content/E/3.HTML

SUSTAINABILITY: AN INTRODUCTION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES STUDENTS UNIT 5: SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND CAMPUS COMMUNITIES TRANSPORTATION: A SYSTEMIC SOLUTION Community design is inextricably linked with our transportation systems. Providing a transportation system that is versatile and viable and sustainable on a long-term basis is of critical concern in many modern cities. Transportation is a multi-faceted issue, encompassing environmental, economic, and social equity aspects of sustainability. All states and cities rely on federal funds to maintain their transportation systems. From the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, until after the 1990 Clean Air Act, federal transportation funds were directed only at highways and related infrastructure supporting auto and truck use. This bias in funding made it more difficult to provide alternative local or regional transportation. Along with the general trends in community development patterns described above, these funding limitations influenced the transportation options available to citizens. The transportation and development trends of the second half of the twentieth century have altered our landscapes and the basic nature of our neighborhoods and cities. In most cities in the developed world, cars now reign supreme as the dominant mode of transportation. Even people who choose not to use a car are affected by the car culture, sheer number of cars, and community design patterns favoring cars.

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