I am here to introduce something that we all unknowingly live in this continent nation, we are:
“I AM AUSTRALIA”
Only here in Australia, unlike any other Country on the planet, there is such an elevated concentration of wonderful Ethnic Groups diversity, represented by all of us. In fact, out of the approximately 200 nations on the planet, here we have about 150 ones, representing hundreds of the Principal Ethnic Groups, which come together to be the single largest concentration of ethnicities.
WE ARE
A REAL AND PEACEFUL UNION OF RACES
The great wealth that this produces is
however, frequently hindered and not used to its full capacity due to the
influence of personal and national interests. For example I was born Italian
however I am clearly aware that if the world was made up solely of Italians
that it would be limited and monotonous. This is in spite of the specific
characteristics of Italians having contributed to the enrichment of the wonders
of this Planet, as have almost all other ethnicities.
Considering the crisis that are engulfing
Nations across our Planet, from existential to nutritional crises, be it for
wealthy or poorer nations, it’s time to
commence real change and action. If we all begin to connect and balance
Personal Good with Shared Good and Shared Good with Personal Good, we can begin
to really utilise the Great Gift that we as Individuals Beings are: that is
Diverse Beings.
Diversity is the greatest Wealth, Imagination
that we have received. One has to only consider for a moment this wealth all
around us given to us by Nature, or for believers by God, and it’s because it
is all around us, everyday, that we don’t give it its due Respect. Let me offer
a simple example: Imagine that we are all at a market and the first thing that
strikes us is the Choice, Colour, Taste, Scents and all this arrives from
different parts of the Planet allowing for our tables and our nutrition to be
full of Choice, Colour, Taste, and Scents. Imagine that we go back to that same
market the following day with high expectations and we find only the one fruit,
the one choice, the one colour, taste, sights and aromas. After three days of
the same thing we are no longer ourselves and our lives would be changed and
saddened and we would regret the Diversity of Opportunity that we currently
take for granted and do not Respect.
We are the all the Wonderfully Diverse Fruit
of the Tree of Life and we all can and I believe should, be open to offering
and receiving our Diversity for a Common Benefit, which enriches the Grand
Experiment called Life. By offering and not imposing our diversity we are able to
share and understand all that surrounds us.
Diversity
in Unity and Unity and Diversity
Australia should be seen not as a place of
individual opportunity, but as a place of social, multicultural and interracial
consciousness. One doesn’t come to Australia for personal convenience rather to
give to this new world a collective benefit so that it can reach social
objectives, peace, love culture, science, technology and diversity.
All that is required to activate and refresh
all this is to recover our memory that we are Love and that we are Brothers and
that only by living in Love in Action and Brotherhood in Manifestation are we
able to nourish our Soul, our Spirit just as we do our Body.
Be
Better to Live Better
“I AM AUSTRALIA” is not about presenting a
nationalistic strength, it is something that goes beyond our Human Will and is
already happening. Now it is up to us to give it Value and Worth.
“I AM AUSTRALIA” is a major Laboratory,
Library and Database that have begun to happen in this physical place. And now it needs all of us to become
Ambassadors of the possibility to Be and Live in Cultural Religious Racial
Brotherhood, so that this can Reverberate across the Planet and we can all be ambassadors
of Love, Fraternity and Diversity through the Culture that has shaped this, as
well as Apprentices of all the Cultures that Shape and Enrich it. We all came
to this Nation bringing with us our Historical Wealth – whereby the Cultural
and Spiritual joins with our Historical Wealth – as well as the Cultural and
Spiritual tenets of indigenous Culture, which all together could produce the
First Grand Manifestation of Peaceful Brotherhood on the Planet.
“I AM AUSTRALIA” is a Cultural and Education
Project, hence it is does not aim to promote a product or service that focuses
on providing an economic return, rather its Aim is to promote an idea of Shared
Reality that reflects what it is already happening in Australia but out of
necessity. Investing in the effective Use of our Diversity could make our lives
much richer. The benefits would also be economic, because by using a Shared
Cultural Wealth for Shared Benefit would make life more Essential even in its
economic aspects which would serve to place the economy closer to a condition
of real and actual needs and not just virtual necessity.
The
Proposition
This actions commences by seeking all those
Human Beings that want to build in Australia a Conscience of Human Fraternity
and share the experiences its contains, Scientific, Religious, Philosophical,
Esoteric, Economic and others … and grow Together and provide this Nation with
an Evolutionary Service. This is an action to grow and evolve ourselves; which
is the only way to grow and evolve the world where we live, as we are the
world.
Create
a meeting space
where all Beings that want to evolve can evolve with other Beings
Create
a spot
internally and externally where we can dream and build a place that gives
benefit to us and to Others.
Create
a place
where uncertainties and fears can be shared so as to transform them to Courage
and Action
Create a place where of one's own
understanding and share them in goodwill those who have not yet achieved such
understanding
Create
a place
where Music, the Arts, Culture, Politics, Religion are the worlds where one has
the possibility to build and live Balance.
Create
a place
where one can discover new Understanding, new Knowledge and comprehend the
wealth of all types of Understanding and the Knowledge of Past
Create
a place
to share. To share Knowledge and Understanding is the only means we have to
grow.
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A space
where people can
seek advice to change their personal condition, as a couple, or with others.
We are all or have all been at some point
challenged without having answers and solutions, here our growth will be able
to create a database of possible opportunities or solutions to verify and to
consider as possible evolutionary choices.
I AM
AUSTRALIA is
the physical place where we can invest our best so as that we and Australia can
become examples of Vision-Strength-Generosity-Creativity-Rectitude-Humour for
all those that live with us and across the whole Planet.
The project will have an open 360° approach: bring together evolutionary projects, establish coordination
so that these projects are realized, commit to participating in these, above
all seeking to collaborate with institutional organizations, Governmental and
others, that are both interested and have a vocation for evolution. Australia
is Planet within the planet as only here is there a high concentration of
ethnic diversity and this is its great Strength and Fortune, but it could be a
major limit if it not put to its best use.
Proud Australia
but now it is time for Dream Australia
This ancient Being can produce a new,
Unifying Conscience in Action and benefit for the whole Planet. Only in
Australia are there the necessary conditions.
The first wealth that is contained in
Australia is the presence across its territory of 144 different Ethnic branches.
Imagine the wonderful possibilities of
actively exchanging these cultural and historical riches that we all bring with
us.
Another significant advantage is the youth of
this new peoples that with a young energy ask to evolve, be better and
experiment to grow, like all of us when we are young.
To this we can add the strength and tenacity
that is a founding characteristic of those that arrived here without owning
anything and that built the new Australia with sweat, labour and honesty.
Reconnect a real and constructive exchange
with Aboriginal culture. Without this exchange, unfortunately, we are at risk
of losing contact with Aboriginal culture the repository for the Planet of
knowledge of the Sweet Dream (Dreamtime).
There are many that see the Aboriginal people
as being convertible to a Western system, without understanding that
fortunately this people still preserve in them a correct relationship with the
Earth and with the correct sense of Ownership and much more.
It’s necessary to listen to those that come
from and where born of the Continent to where we have only decided to come and
live.
Given that the first two hundred years of
Australia history are but only a few generations, many more generations will be
needed in order to see the rise of the first new Australian with a new and
complete Australian genome.
It’s necessary in the meanwhile to better
prepare the conditions that will allow future generations to be more evolved
than our own that is not acting with absolute Wisdom.
Obviously we all know the strong concept of
“I AM AUSTRALIAN” which needs to be the launching pad for “I AM AUSTRALIA”,
given that this is the natural progression of the other. In fact only when I as
one am at home and Australian can I represent the sense of “I AM” “AUSTRALIA”. No longer Being a part of
something but Being something which is an Active Manifestation.
In
planetary evolutionary terms, “Australia” represents both the ANCIENT and the
NEW. Its land, its place, with
Aboriginal settlements that go back almost 40 thousand years and with new
settlements post Captain Cook show to the Planet one of the best types of
combinations of Technology and Quality of Life.
NOW IT
IS UP TO US TO CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ALL THAT
HAS
BEEN DONE
WHY?
Because
“I AM AUSTRALIA”
The Action
In order for every
idea or perception of possible cultural and education change to come to
fruition it needs to be shared and experimented directly in the Community and
through direct contact through those that make it possible: PEOPLE. In order to engage
the community it should be noted that there is a need to use methods that that
allow for the Sharing and Collection of Ideas through appropriate Communication
Channels. Given the size of the Australian territory a web portal that acts as
a receiver of the work will offer:
Communicating and
exchange of data directly to people across the territory
Video Communications
Audio Communications
Communications to
People across the Community
Use and management of 2 camper vans that will tour Australia will engage with place and the reality of
communities and highlight their richness in terms of racial, cultural and
religious diversity and highlight the work of cultural groups and associations
that already undertake work on this objective. Both essential and interesting
will be to investigate, within communities, the invisible hearts of people that
through their individual actions change the lives of us all in ways that are
permanent and visible. This type of action will assist us to collect material,
experiences and ideas for future projects. These Resources will be utilized as
Informational and Communication content to populate the portal.
AUDIO AND VIDEO
COMMUNICATIONS
The audio/video content will be
used to enrich en the communication channel that will be entitled “It’s Possible
News” and will allow for single actions to be shared with the community even
when those actions are not popular but which give gratification and awareness
of being useful.The audio video component will be completed by research via the
internet that are relevant to the project and which enriches our daily lives.
In this section we will also try to showcase personal stories that will enhance
awareness.
Of interest will be the “I Am
Australia-World section”. This will capture the life stories of the multiple Ethnicity that have actively taken part through sharing their personal
experiences in the Project. Their participation will see them become
Ambassadors and Spokesperson of a new sense of Australia that is projected to
the future with strength and through the richness of the origins. This engagement will
create a real sense of global exchange
When there is a coming together
of personal and collective identity among people in our community, this society
will move a step closer to realizing the Australian dream. This will then
assist our society to be multicultural, multiracial and multi-spiritual and
personal sense of being will be key part of a common sense of being and purpose
in the wider community
I AM
AUSTRALIA
PROJECT
PLAN
( UNDER COSTRUCTION )
Table
of Contents
1. Title of project
2. Background
to the Project
3 Key
Objectives & Deliverables
4. Project
Benefits
5 Target
Outcomes
6 Project
Schedule
7 Budget
and Expenditure
8 Project
Management Plan
8.1 Governance
8.2 Reporting
Requirements
9 Risk
Management Plan
1. Title of project
I Am
Australia - Facilitating deep cultural awareness, the celebration of cultural
identity, essence of place and community sensibility to the richness of our
multicultural society.
2. Background to the Project
The
Australian continent is home to hundreds of different nationalities. Over 260
different languages are spoken in Australia today, including Indigenous
languages, and this linguistic diversity has brought many benefits. Some 19 per
cent of the total population speak a language other than English at home.
Three are
very few places in the planet where there is a similar diversity of such
culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) people. To this end Australia is a
model multicultural society and is a place that for many CALD groups represents
something better, not a place to imitate their homeland. The great wealth that
this produces is however, frequently hindered and not used to its full capacity
due to the influence of personal and national interests.
The three
elements that have made multiculturalism successful are: Firstly in Australia
there is a strong link between multiculturalism, the freedom to express and
maintain one’s cultural and the value of law. Australian law clearly safeguards
freedom while also expecting recognition of its laws. Secondly Australian
citizenship is conferred to CALD groups through a pledge and commitment. The
practise of becoming an Australian citizen does not mean that one has to forgo or feel that their cultural or linguistic
identity becomes undermined. Thirdly multiculturalism in Australia has been
rich as it has transcended politics. The political bipartisanship that has
marked multiculturalism since its inception has come to support and enrich
multicultural advocacy and policy.
Australia has
every element to be a robust, liberal multicultural society where cultural
awareness could be deep and resilient in its people. To affirm Australia as continent
which is at one with the concept of deep cultural diversity requires better
understanding the richness of our living stories and people that are defining
this place “Australia”.
In essence if
Australia wants to be the unique place of cultural and racial harmony where
people have come for something better, then this place is only the sum of the
rich stories and languages that are in a society. The I Am Australia project
will be the “vox populi” that will record the stories of the people that live in
harmony who make Australian society what it is.
“I AM
AUSTRALIA” is a Cultural and Education Project, hence it is does not aim to
promote a product or service that focuses on providing an economic return.
Rather its aim is to promote a sense of celebration and tangible use of our
diversity which makes our lives much richer. The benefits of the project would
also be economic, because by promoting Shared Cultural Wealth for Shared
Benefit there would be positive economic and social benefits arising from the Project, as well as
many equally important but less tangible benefits such as:
• Creating a meeting space for
inclusion and evolution for those that participate in the project. That is a
place where people can connect with and evolve with others
• Create a spot internally and
externally where we can dream and build a place that gives benefit to us and to
others.
• Create a place where through having a
space that capture stories and personal narratives uncertainties and fears can
be shared so as to transform them to Courage and Action
• Create a place where Music, the Arts,
Culture, Science, Politics, Religion are
celebrated and considered with balance.
• Create a place where one can discover
new Understanding, new Knowledge and comprehend the wealth of all types of
Understanding and the Knowledge of Past
• And ultimately create a place to
share. To share Knowledge and Understanding is the only means we have to grow.
Recording the
stories and living histories of our CALD groups - in all the possible languages and with all
the cultural groups that live in this continent - is a unique project. It is
substantial task that will draw on interactive media and literature; street
intercepts/listening stations; web-based engagement and traditional touring of
regional communities and centres. The rich content of stories of this “living
history in open-source“shall be captured and brought together under the “I Am
Australia” website, logo and associated collateral (the web domain
www.iamaustralia.org is already owned by the project group).
The
intellectual property (once costs and expenses are covered by the project team)
will be free to the public under “creative commons” (based on its use meeting
guidelines such as political bipartisanship, commercial copyright etc).
3 Key Objectives & Deliverables
Objectives
The key
objectives of the “I Am Australia” placemaking project are:
1. Create truly bipartisan content that
bridges the gap in the collateral and content associated with the study of
Australian history in the Australian national curriculum. The simple concept of
recording stories of the full range the CALD citizens in Australia to simply
ask “What does the place of Australia mean to you” is a rich addition to the
capturing of Australia’s “living history in open-source”. Producing and
offering content that celebrates Australia’s rich sense of place is essential
if Australia is going to have a meaningful national curriculum for
schools.
2. Contribute through the “I Am Australia”
content a meaningful addition to the national debate on how multiculturalism in
Australia is evolving. There is substantial debate and discourse on the end of
multiculturalism in this country. Engaging with CALD groups around the sense of
place of Australia will provide evidence that will bridge the gaps in
mainstream communication and media channels around what it means to be
Australian. To this end the project will be a positive contribution to
Australian discourse about the communal wealth of equality and cultural richness
that exists in our society.
3. Be a source and font of rich content
and collateral for use for communities groups and local arts, culture and
heritage groups and advocates across the country. The ongoing generation of “I
am Australia” content undertaken by local communities (again in keeping with
the parameters of the project of bipartisanship and commercial copyright) will
ensure that the project continues to be live, relevant and a source of
inspiration. For example should the project will greatly benefit the practise
of community development undertaken at the local government levels and/or by
community groups.
Deliverables
• To develop an engagement plan for
participation that involves connecting with representatives from numerous CALD,
ethnic and other community groups who will be the partners to assist in the
engagement required to undertake the I Am Australia “vox populi”
• Scope the plan, resources, costs and
requirements to establish the I Am Australia website/portal/online channel that
is home to the recorded I Am Australia “vox populi” which are to be recorded
and distributed primarily from the web channel. The concept will operate as a
single seamless platform across, audio, video and web in both offline and
online environments.
• Prepare a plan for other resources
and collateral required to provide the depth and quality of media,
art-direction, IT systems, supporting documents etc to share and distribute the
I Am Australia content.
4. Project Benefits
What are the
expected benefits that will be directly generated by the IAA Projects? Who will receive the benefits? What is the
timeframe for the benefits to begin to impact on the performance of the IAA
project? Can a value be ascribed to the benefits in terms of $ value added,
value of new users/subscribers or new services or levels of engagement?
5 Target Outcomes
Provide
details of how the I Am Australia team will measure the success of the project,
when this will occur and who is responsible for delivery. This can be in the
following table:
Target Outcome
|
Measure
|
Completion Date
|
Accountability
|
1 What is
to be achieved?
|
How will
the IAA Project team measure if the target has been achieved?
|
When will
this be achieved?
|
Who is
responsible for delivery?
|
2
|
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3
|
6 Project Schedule
Provide a
detailed breakdown of all stages necessary to satisfactorily bring the IAA
project to start phase. This can be provided in the following table:
Project Stage Number
|
Description
|
Responsible Person
|
Scheduled Start
|
Scheduled Finish
|
Predecessor
|
Insert
stage number (e.g. 1, 2, 3 etc)
1
|
What is to
be achieved?
|
Who is
responsible for delivery (e.g. CFO, Operations Director etc)?
|
Insert
scheduled start date
|
Insert
scheduled finish date
|
Previous
stage number that must be completed before this stage can commence (this can
be left blank if there are no dependencies)
|
2
|
|||||
3 etc
|
7 Budget and Expenditure
Budget for Project
- Provide detailed
costs breakdown for the IAA project including all significant items of
expenditure. This should be broken down into financial years for all aspects of
the project.
Activities
that should be included here include
·
The
purchase of new or upgraded equipment or technology.
·
Network
functions or business activities including normal business activities.
·
Network
or firm activities that have already taken place or are underway.
Projected Network Profit and Loss
– Provide projections
of incremental Profit & Loss and Cash Flow resulting from the project. The
Profit & Loss projections should include incremental sales, cost of sales,
gross profit, expenses and operating profit. The Cash Flow projections should
include incremental cash from operations, funding received from the project
(including any grants) and expenditure related to the project.
8 Project Management Plan
8.1 Governance
Provide
details of the IAA’s governance structure for the project. What arrangements
are in place to ensure that the project proceeds as planned and the members
receive the expected benefits from the project?
This is particularly
relevant for any . Issues that should be
addressed include authorities for decision making, financial commitments and
expenditure, contractual arrangements, project management responsibilities and,
if required, personnel recruitment and management arrangements.
8.2 Reporting Requirements
Include details of internal reporting
structure for the duration of the project. This can be provided in the
following table:
Reported By
|
To Whom
|
Reporting Requirements
|
Frequency
|
1 Name
and position of responsible person
|
Name and
position of recipient
|
What is
to be provided (e.g. status report)?
|
How
often is this to be provided?
|
2 etc
|
9 Risk Management Plan
List potential risks that may affect the project and how they will be
mitigated. This can be provided in the following table:
Risk ID Number
|
Risk Category
|
Risk Description
|
Impact
|
Likelihood
|
Mitigation Strategy
|
1
|
Category
of the risk to the project (see note below table)
|
Brief
description of the risk to the project
|
How much
of an effect will it have to project delivery (e.g. high, medium, low)
|
How
likely is it to occur (e.g. high, medium, low)
|
What
actions has the company undertaken to limit this risk?
|
2
|
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3
|
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4 etc
|
Note:
Common risk categories are: project requirements; benefits; schedule; budget;
deliverables; scope; issues; suppliers; communication; and resourcing. You may
wish to include some, all of these or others, depending on your project.
