About StepOne

StepOne provides guidance and practical resources to councils and community groups interested in implementing community cohesion initiatives in their local areas.  
 
The site features downloadable ‘best practice’ case studies covering a range of communities and issues, especially those which:

• Reduce racism, intolerance, and negative stereotypes
  
• Build positive and sustainable relationships between communities
  
• Get communities working together and interacting
  
• Deal with the ‘difficult stuff’ of living together, not just soft multiculturalism
  
• Move beyond the ‘multicultural festival’ model (food, dance etc)
  
• Show us how to live in harmony, making the most of our racial, cultural, social and religious diversity.

Contacts:

Submissions of new CASE STUDIES are welcome.
Please complete this FORM and email to casestudies@stepone.org.au

General enquiries:

Centre for Research on Social Inclusion
Email: crsi@scmp.mq.edu.au
Phone: 02 9850-9171

The content has been produced by Dr Amanda Wise in the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion at Macquarie University, and was proudly sponsored by the Australian Government through the Department of Immigration and Citizenship. From 2010, ongoing maintenance of the site has been made possible with funding from  the Australian Human Rights Commission.
 
Site development was guided by a steering committee, which included Beth Cotterill from the Department of Immigration and Citizenship; Rolf Fenner from the Australian Local Government Association; Marcia Coelho from City of Melville, Western Australia; Lindy Drew from Queensland’s LAMP program; Judith Robertson from City of Charles Sturt, South Australia; and Dr Jan Ali from Macquarie University.