Who we are
Change Politics is a public awareness and advocacy campaign all about Citizens’ Assemblies. We’re non-partisan, and policy agnostic. Essentially what we care (and advocate about) is a better way to make decisions. We’re philanthropically funded through The newDemocracy Foundation (you can read more about them below).
Our Advisors
Claudia Chwalisz
Claudia Chwalisz leads the OECD’s work on innovative citizen participation, which explores how to bring public judgement to democracy to improve public decision making, and how to strengthen society’s democratic fitness.
Art O’Leary
Art O’Leary was Secretary General to the President of Ireland and designed and ran the 2012 Irish Constitutional Convention. That project blended MPs and citizens together in one assembly which led politicians to understand and trust the process – resulting in the ongoing use of the method in Ireland for major issues.
Elizabeth Proust
Elizabeth Proust is one of Australia’s most respected business leaders – Chairman of Cuscal, non-executive director of Lendlease and Chairman of SuperFriend. Notably, Elizabeth was one of the first to comment (years ago!) on the need for Australia to do democracy better.
The newDemocracy Foundation
Change Politics is a campaign from The newDemocracy Foundation, a charity founded to research and develop democratic innovations. We operate Citizens’ Assemblies of the highest quality and do research and evaluation of projects world wide.
