Dialogue Roundtables
The Investment Dialogue will include a series of roundtable meetings, giving government, philanthropic partners and community leaders the opportunity to share knowledge, align strategic priorities and drive meaningful change.
Second Roundtable
Creating Lasting Change for Australia’s Children
On 15th of November 2024, leaders from philanthropy, government, and community came together on Kaurna Country in Adelaide for the second Investment Dialogue for Australia’s Children roundtable.
Hosted at the Living Kaurna Cultural Centre, this gathering focused on listening to community voices and identifying ways to improve wellbeing and reduce intergenerational disadvantage for children, young people, and families across Australia.
Key Outcomes:
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Strengthened Partnerships: New Strategic Framework and expanded collaboration across three portfolios—place, early years, and young people.
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Backing Community-Led Change: Supporting up to 50 communities by 2030 and partnering with 3 communities to co-design innovation zones.
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Thriving in the Early Years: Establishing a new working group to develop and embed integrated early childhood development approaches and co-design strengths based data.
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Outcomes Fund: Establish the IDAC Social Impact Investment and Advisory Working Group to collaborate on projects under the Government’s $100 million Outcomes Fund.
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Youth Initiatives: Developing a youth-focused portfolio for 2025.
Inaugural Roundtable
The first National Investment Dialogue Roundtable was held at Parliament House on 4 December 2023. It was attended by the Executive Group and representatives from philanthropic and government dialogue members.
Participants signed the Working Together Agreement – outlining a shared commitment to a long-term collaboration to improve the wellbeing of children, young people, and their families – and agreed to embed community voices in Investment Dialogue discussions through the establishment of a Community Leadership Council and a First Nations Leadership Council.
Investments
At the inaugural roundtable, philanthropic dialogue members announced approximately $65 million dollars of recent investments aligned to the Investment Dialogue’s vision.
These investments have been initiated by philanthropy since conversations about the collaboration commenced in September 2022 following the Jobs and Skills Summit.
