Podcast appearances and mentions of dion mccurdy

This week the Now and the Future podcast talks about Wills and Estates with Dion McCurdy, Principal of Direct Lawyers. With over eight years of experience specialising in Wills and Estates, Dion provides fantastic insight and advice to ensure your affairs are in correct order for the future. A not to be missed episode for anyone with a child with an intellectual disability.Now And The Future is a production of Down Syndrome Queensland.For more information please visit the DSQ website, or follow us on Facebook and Instagram.

Episode 54 covers three topics: Mentoring and closing the gap between Indigenous Australians and non-Indigenous Australians, finding musical feet and balancing everyday life with creativity, and the future of democratic participation through technology.34-year-old Tom Wensley works for AIME (The Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience), is Co-Director of New Vote (check out Season 2 episode 36 with Dion McCurdy for a full episode on this) and is a founding member of the band Standby Empire.This episode is jam packed with Tom’s stories from how AIME began, the most recent Imagination Declaration at Garma and the work AIME is expanding into with African-Australians and internationally. Plus Caspar and Tom discuss all things democracy and effecting change in a world of fake news, and how Tom’s work in all three of his passions essentially hopes to create more bridges and understanding between people.This episode of Binge Thinking was produced by Nina Roxburgh, was edited by Nina and Charlotte Morton, and features music by Big Gigantic.

Dion McCurdy of NewVote discusses his experience in developing the organisation and shares insights into how social enterprise can be used to empower the community to become more politically engaged to create positive social impact.

Caspar speaks to 33 year old lawyer and social pioneer Dion McCurdy about NewVote, an online direct democracy platform. The two discuss Dion's faith in ordinary people’s ability to solve difficult political problems, the case for direct democracy in Australia, and how these systems work in other countries like Switzerland, Spain and even the United States. Dion also explains the value of citizen juries, and shares his passion for reforming politics to make the world a better place. You can support NewVote at their Patreon page here, follow them on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. This episode was edited by Nina Roxburgh and features music by Big Gigantic.

Say what you like about our political leaders, but if we are going to have opinions it's important they are informed ones. At least that's what Dion McCurdy believes. Dion is a practising solicitor of the supreme court and the founder of a new app called NewVote. NewVote is a digital platform to allow users to peruse political issues and vote on what should be done about them.

Get all links mentioned in the episode here: https://www.neuralle.com/blog/posts/069-direct-democracy-made-digital-dion-mccurdy Skip through the episode:00:57 - Introduction03:58 - First interest in law & politics07:30 - Democracy & indicators society is progressing10:39 - A closer look at Australia12:44 - Lessons learnt from his parents14:56 - Dr. John de Groot, Wills & Estates18:23 - Law & Order19:33 - Types of democracy, citizen juries25:31 - Direct democracies, the Swiss system30:46 - Public support on issues in Australia32:30 - Plebiscites & direct democracy in Aus37:22 - Australia’s democratic crossroads49:56 - Representatives and politicians41:16 - How NewVote began44:42 - What NewVote is, MiVote, Flux47:38 - Why an app, the future of NewVote50:24 - Barriers to politics today53:27 - What a future ideal democracy may look like56:30 - Trust in politics, downside of direct democracy59:44 - Leaders that he respects01:00:55 - Daily routine01:01:57 - Best purchase under $20001:02:40 - What is difficult to find middle-ground on?