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August 31, 2022

#CoPowerBudget Update for August 2022 

As per our three rounds of democratic voting, our rank-and-file customer members voted to spend $100,000.00 on doing good works with the balance of our income […]
July 15, 2022
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#CoPowerBudget 2022/23 Vote Results

We had 801 total household votes for the final round of this year’s democratic budget. This makes it by far the biggest vote we’ve ever run […]
July 12, 2022

Funding new community renewables: Bass Coast Adult Learning Centre, Wonthaggi

Here’s a case study of where our CoPower investment in community-owned renewables ended up in the 2021/22 democratic budget. The Bass Coast Adult Learning in Wonthaggi […]
June 24, 2022

Advisory Board Members for Redgum Cleaning Cooperative

BOARD POSITIONS VACANT Advisory Board Members x 2 (Voluntary role, meeting stipend provided) Redgum Cleaning Cooperative is looking for two new advisory board members to join […]
June 24, 2022
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A step-by-step guide to voting on Opa Vote

Here is a step-by-step guide to voting on Opa Vote. Firstly, apologies but some of you erroneously got 2 emails from Opa Vote on Friday 24th […]
June 20, 2022

The simple list of democratic budget projects

This is a simplified list of democratic budget projects listed via our randomly generated ballot order. A few notes to bear in mind about voting this […]
June 17, 2022

Update on the electricity crisis

So what is happening in the electricity market right now, and what does it mean for our customer members? Below we have an explainer current for […]
May 27, 2022

Make a budget submission

Project submissions for our democratic budget are open until 11:59pm Monday June 6th 2022. It’s a simple two step process. Any individual customer members, member organisation […]
May 13, 2022

2nd Round Budget Vote Report

This vote was to determine the relative allocation of $100,000 between the eight identified spending priority areas as resolved through the 2nd customer member budget workshop. […]
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