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#9 - September 2025
Much has been written about the importance of ‘home’, ‘place’ and ‘community’, and our enduring attachment to these essential building blocks of a happy life, and a thriving society - especially when these building blocks are strong and good.
When they are not, we see greater mobility and patterns of migration leaving the uncertainty, difficulty or danger behind in search of the opposite. And a new chapter of making ‘home’, ‘place’ and ‘community’ starts up in our adopted land.
#8 - June 2025
As we digest the news of escalating conflict in the Middle East and as the Winter solstice rolls past, we’re leaning into the warmth of ideas, connection, and community—the things that keep the civic fires burning.
It’s been a big couple of months in civic life, with Australia’s newly minted Labor government winning a thumping mandate—and, we hope, a recharge of courage.
#2 - September 2023
We now have an opportunity to vote for a First Nations Voice to parliament as an important gesture towards voice, treaty and truth.
It does not solve everything but, like all progressive moves, it’s a step in the right direction for a more equitable and inclusive Australia.
The time for YES is now.
#4 - March 2024
Having celebrated our 5th birthday in February, we are delighted to announce the appointment of a new Director, Gillian Turnbull who joins our team after Easter. Gillian has an accomplished career here and overseas advising 'for purpose' organisations, and will work alongside me to drive sector engagement and project delivery from our base here in Melbourne.
#7 - February 2025
There’s a somewhat Dickensian feeling out there right now; the worst of times, as nationalist polities reset the World order and a cost-of-living crisis bites; the best of times, as our Australian economy appears to land a narrow path of taming inflation while simultaneously growing employment, and our Federal Government balances its budget, again.
#1 - June 2023
Welcome to GoodWolf’s first quarterly newsletter, and the new financial year.
We are delighted to connect with you again, and we hope our new quarterly missive will give you ten minutes of reading pleasure and reflection.
For GoodWolf, we have new team members, a refined service offering, a recent B Corp certification to celebrate, and a new website that links us to a community of change makers.
#5 -July 2024
As we turn into a new financial year, we welcome the recent investiture of Sam Mostyn as our second female Governor General. Ms Mostyn vows a modern and optimistic stance to ‘address the rising lack of respect for women, of shrinking opportunities for some men, and the need for respectful conversations to understand the place for men in our communities now’ in Australia.
#3 - December 2023
'If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten we belong to each other.' - Mother Teresa
As we introduce our final newsletter for the year, we want to first acknowledge how recent events in the Middle East and the failed referendum have opened old wounds and eroded social cohesion in Australia in an alarming way.
#6 - October 2024
Electioneering is stirring up our hopes again, from our local elections in Port Phillip to our State election in Queensland.
It is interesting to consider the commitments and arguments from aspiring candidates through the lens of our client’s work, and their direct links through to promising outcomes and solutions on key election issues like housing, homelessness, mental health, education, First Nations, health, arts, employment.