Common Cause Australia

13/08/2025

Join our Director Mark Chenery and Associate Kate May for the launch of our latest message guide. Registrations essential.

How we speak about addiction can transform understanding and open pathways to support.

Turning Point, in partnership with Common Cause Australia, has created Framing Addiction & Dependence — a message guide built on the voices of more than 2,400 Australians and the expertise of clinicians, researchers, advocates, and people with lived experience.

This free online webinar marks the launch of the guide, with insights from Professor Dan Lubman AM and Mark Chenery on how to use these evidence-based messages to build public understanding, shift harmful narratives, and strengthen support for those experiencing harm.

Whether you work in the alcohol and other drug sector, the wider health field, or have been personally affected by addiction, this is your opportunity to be part of a national conversation on reducing stigma and creating change.

Join us online at 1pm on Tuesday 26 August 2025.
Register at: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/launch-of-framing-addiction-dependence-a-message-guide-tickets-1565597045909

22/05/2025

We’re excited to invite you to the launch of our Framing Sexual and Reproductive Health message guide, developed in partnership with the Women’s Health Services Network.

Our new guide will give allies the confidence and clarity to speak about sexual and reproductive health in ways that resonate with the values of the broader community.

Come along and find out more on June 4th:

Webinar Launch: Framing Sexual and Reproductive Health

21/05/2025

We've spent more time on our closed Facebook group for messaging practitioners recently, but we'll be putting details of our public workshops here on our Page again from now on!

If you'd like to discuss Values Based Messaging with a community of practitioners, please join us there: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/19HzoMzEHs/

In the meantime, look out over the next few days for some exciting new trainings we've got coming up over the next few months!

01/11/2023

We all want to create a society that respects, values and celebrates everyone regardless of age. We can begin by thinking and talking differently about people as we grow older.

Our new online training on Framing Age will show you how to talk about age, ageing and issues that affect older people in ways that reduce ageist attitudes and behaviours.

We are excited to launch this free training program at the FORUM: A Question of Ageism event tomorrow evening, with our member Glen Eira City Council .

Special guest Mark Chenery of Common Cause Australia, who developed the training, will step us through his in depth research and the power of using values and frames to actively reduce ageist assumptions in our audiences.

It’s a free event, and you can still book a place at www.trybooking.com/CKVMV.

Details on how to access the training coming soon to our website: www.eapn.org.au.

25/10/2022

If you work in public health and want to apply values-based messaging to your work, the Framing Health training was designed for you.

Find out more here: https://www.commoncause.com.au/framing-health-training (only 3 spots left)

Framing Health Learn how to apply values-based messaging to your health promotion work in this online workshop. The Framing Health workshop builds upon the recommendations included in VicHealth’s Healthy Persuasion message guide. In the workshop we share insights from four years of extensive messa...

11/05/2022

If you need some inspiration, check out this great article on hope-based communication. You’ll love it…hopefully 😉

For a human rights movement dedicated to exposing abuses, positive communication does not come naturally. But to make the case for human rights, we cannot rely on fear of a return to the dark past, we need to promise a brighter future.

25/03/2022

Our co-Director Mark Chenery will be talking about the role of values and unity in the age of discord on 12 April in Canberra. Hope to see you there!

Introducing the first panellist - Mark Chenery.

Mark Chenery is a communications expert and trainer. Mark, Co-Founder of Common Cause Australia, works with mission-driven organisations to incorporate a values-based approach to community engagement.

Join us on the 12th of April as Mark draws from his background in journalism and advertising to talk about ‘Unity in the age of discord’.

Want to hear from Mark and other like-minded individuals? Register now, visit: https://events.humanitix.com/tedxcanberra-conversations-unity-in-the-age-of-discord-how-we-can-learn-to-agree-and-disagree-constructively-again

22/06/2021

Do you know an aspiring climate leader who is a tertiary student or recent graduate?

For the third year running, Common Cause Australia has partnered with ClimateWorks Australia and Climate Reality to run the Adam Majcher Legacy Program.

The program includes free Common Cause and Climate Reality training as well as a five week paid internship with ClimateWorks Australia.

For details visit: https://careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/job/621652/adam-majcher-legacy-program-fellowship-2021?mc_cid=d0ef623840&mc_eid=UNIQID&fbclid=IwAR3_ERIml6F34V87JHgey77HGzalxofFmoxz0bCi-7M7fv-9eHQDGME8f50

03/06/2021

Want to learn how to use values and frames to motivate change? Book your tickets now for our next online Fundamentals workshop coming up in November.

1:00 PM Wed 03 Nov at Zoom videoconference, Wednesday 3rd, 10th, 17th & 24th November, . Learn how values and frames work and how to motivate people to work together for a more just, democratic and sustainable world