Last month, I spent a day in Melbourne at a training called Leading Co-Design in Complex Systems, facilitated by Dr Emma Blomkamp . I work in co-design a lot, but am constantly learning, often from honest reflections in our team on what we could have done better. The session gave me space to slow down, learn and think more carefully about different aspects of co-design. Undertaking this training with Emma and other attendees gave me the opportunity to look through different

“No single agency created these harms, and no single agency can undo them.” Jumbunna Institute Review, July 2025 If you’re passionate about co-design, community engagement, systems reform work, the public sector and policy, then this is the article for you to be across this week. I’m doing a clean-up of my laptop over the holiday break. It was in that state that I couldn’t even make out the picture of my kids behind the endless file thumbnails on my desktop. I am at the pool