Australian Citizens' Parliament

Janette Hartz-Karp is Professor of Sustainability at the newly-formed Curtin University Sustainability Policy Institute (CUSP) at Curtin University in Perth.

For four and a half years as community engagement consultant to the Minister and also the Western Australian Department for Planning and Infrastructure, Janette's task was to find innovative ways to achieve joint decision making with the community pioneering deliberative democracy. She designed and implemented a wide range of deliberative democracy techniques including Citizens' Juries, Consensus Forums, 21st Century Town Meetings, Multi Criteria Analysis Conferences, World Cafes, Enquiry-by-Design Dialogues, and Deliberative Polls (for details see 21st Century Dialogue).

Janette has continued to pioneer innovative community engagement techniques with local and state governments across Australia, and non-government organisations in Australia and the USA on issues relating to climate change. Janette represents Australia at a number of deliberative democracy and collaborative governance forums in the USA and Canada, has presented papers and workshops nationally and internationally, and is on the editorial board of the new International Journal for Public Participation, supported by the International Association for Public Participation (IAP2).