During six days between August and November, 2018 Deliberately Engaging helped to conduct a community panel for the Nillumbik Shire Council in north-east Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Ten thousand invitations were sent to randomly selected Nillumbik households and businesses, inviting people to nominate themselves for the Community Panel. From these responses, 44 people were chosen based on their demographic profile and where they reside, representative of the Nillumbik population.

By the end of six full panel days, the panel came up with recommendations on the best way for the Green Wedge to be managed and presented these recommendations in a report to Council. The Community Panel must have an 80 per cent majority agreement on any recommendation they put forward to Council.