Vern Hughes is Director of Civil Society Australiaand Convenor of the Civil Society Movement.
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Whatever Happened to Civil Society?
Our experience of love, care and belonging are formed by our relationships in the civil sphere, not by the state or the market. Our lives are subsequently shaped, battered and sometimes improved by the state and the market, but the primary formation of our unique selves and our values is the work of civil society.
April 6, 2018



















