Workshop 9: Policy and Advocacy 101 with Pippa Newman

Event description

This workshop was held in-person at Denman Communities at Work on 20th August 2025, and online on 21 August 2025.

This workshop talked about the following topics:

  • How the ACT government works
  • How to get in touch with your local ACT government members and ministers
  • Important times that the government makes decisions (like elections, budgets and making new strategies)
  • Ways the government asks for community opinions
  • How you can share your voice and be heard
  • What WWDACT and other systemic advocacy organisations do

The WWDACT Policy Network was launched at this workshop. You can learn more about it here.

Workshop recording

A recording of the online version of the workshop will be available soon.

Workshop slides are available below.

Workshop resources

You can access the resource for this workshop below. You can click the link to download it as a PDF, or view it in your browser below.