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Try, Test and Learn Fund – Submit an idea

Use the form below to submit your ideas for the Try, Test and Learn Fund on how we can assist people within the three initial priority groups.
Make sure that you respond to all required questions, and that you include all the relevant information in your answers. Please note that this submission process is not accepting attachments. Only your answers to the questions in the form will be considered when assessing your idea.

Make sure you refer to the Try, Test and Learn Fund Handbook and our Questions and Answers before submitting your idea. The eligibility and assessment criteria set out in the Handbook will help you know what we are looking for in a successful idea. The Handbook and the Questions and Answers, along with other supporting material, can be found on the important information page. This page will be updated with additional material as it becomes available.

If your idea meets minimum eligibility criteria in the Handbook, information about it will be published on DSS Engage as part of the Try, Test and Learn Fund’s collaborative approach. Ideas can be shared and reviewed by others, which may result in people collaborating or refining their ideas.

Please note that if you are under 18 years of age, you should complete this ideas submission form with your parent or guardian. You will need to have a parent or guardian agree to the terms and conditions in the submission form on your behalf.

You can save the form by selecting the "Save and continue later" button at the bottom of the page. You will be given a unique link, allowing you to complete the form within 30 days from any computer.
Terms and Conditions
- Agreement to terms and conditions (required)
  You must agree to these terms and conditions before you can submit your idea. These terms and conditions allow the Department to publish selected parts of your idea on DSS Engage and assess it for further co-development. If you are under 18 years of age, you will need to have a parent or guardian agree to the terms and conditions in the submission form on your behalf.
  - Yes, I agree with the terms and conditions
About you
- Are you submitting this idea on behalf of an organisation? (required)
  - Yes
  - No
- Please provide details of your organisation. We will use these details to get in touch with you if needed. The name of your organisation will be published with your submission. You will be able to select whether you want any additional information to be published on the view ideas page at the end of this form.
- Please provide your details. We will use these details to get in touch with you if needed. Your given name and your “Tell us about yourself” will be published with your submission. You will also be able to select whether you want to publish any additional information on the view ideas page at the end of this form.
- Name of organisation (required)
- Your title
  MR
- Your given name (required)
- Your surname (required)
- Position in organisation (required)
- Address (required)
  Street Address Address Line 2 City/Town/Suburb State/Territory Postcode
- Contact email (required)
- Contact number (required)
  0434 715.861
  0 of 10 max characters
- Tell us about yourself
  20 words or less. 0 of 150 max characters
  This is an opportunity for you to share some information about yourself. Examples: Young carer, Retired teacher, GP from regional Queensland, TAFE student.
  
  Retired CBA. Many years administering very large infrastructure loans. I worked with talented execs in construction companies, lawyers, accountants, over 70 global banks.
Your idea
- Question 1: Which priority group of the Try, Test and Learn Fund does your idea support? (required)
  To be eligible, your idea must support one or more of the current priority groups by improving their workforce participation or capacity to work. More information on the priority groups is available in the Try, Test and Learn Fund Handbook.
  - Young carers
  - Young parents
  - x Young students at risk of long-term unemployment
- Question 2: What need or issue are you trying to address? (required)
  200 words or less. 0 of 1400 max characters
  Briefly describe the need or issue you have identified and how it relates to workforce participation or capacity to work for your priority group. Consider providing brief information on how you know that this problem exists. For example, have you observed it personally, or do you have supporting research?
  
  SMH article 'Crying out for a new beginning' (Rachel Olding) describes Bourke NSW, with a high Indigenous youth population, as having the highest crime rate and unemployment in Australia. Walgett, Greater Dandenong, Cobar, Alice Springs, Mt. Gambier, Kalgoorlie, Coonabarabran, Wellington, West Kimberley, Yugul Mangi are similar:
  
  assault, break and enter, motor vehicle theft, malicious damage to property, child sexual abuse, family violence, crystal meth addiction
  
  These isolated regional towns - high 'Working age payment recipients' - are characterised by:
  
  youth suicide, school absenteeism, boredom, social disadvantage, dilapidated housing, neglect of children, early experimentation with alcohol, petrol sniffing and excessive cigarette smoking
  
  A welter of other newspaper articles and government reports concur the above 'issue'.
  
  Many of these 'Unlucky' teenagers never received mentoring to experience the synergies from 'team bonding', acquire effective communication skills, develop an appetite for education and self-belief.
  
  Three Philanthropic Elder Colleagues from each of Ten Aust. Corporate Sponsors 'need' to provide mentoring to 14 Accepted Year 9 Aboriginal Students from each of Six Regional Townships from the Selected Six Townships In The Northern Territory With A Population >2000 over three years. Each Sept. school holidays 60 Accepted Year 9 Aboriginal Students from five isolated Regional Townships will compete at one selected metropolitan city, e.g. Adelaide, for First Year in one of three Motivational Annual Teams Challenges (1st Year: Team Bonding, 2nd Public Speaking, 3rd Social Media). The other five Regional Township Teams will compete in another selected metropolitan city, e.g. Brisbane in First Year.
- Question 3: What is your idea? (required)
  200 words or less. 0 of 2100 max characters
  Briefly explain your idea to address the need or issue you identified above. Use this question to outline the purpose or objective or your idea and how you think it will work to address your identified need or issue. If you have considered the logistics of delivering your idea, such as participant details, location and cost, use Question 7 to tell us about them.
  At CBA, I experienced the enormous untapped 'administrative' skill/knowledge and 'funding' resource within senior execs at Australia's largest Corporates. Many of whom approaching retirement, or recently retired, are keen-to-give-back to Australians that have not been as Lucky, provided they can apply the specialist skills they possess.
  Three Philanthropic Elder Colleagues from each of Ten Corporate Sponsors could administer/fund a Life Skills Philanthropic Service Movement to provide (over three years) to 140 Accepted Students [who live in the Selected Six Townships In The Northern Territory With A Population >2000 who form Ten Regional Township Teams] -
  1.          Three Motivational Teams Challenges to experience/learn (Team Bonding, Public Speaking, I.T. And Social Media); and
  2.          On-Site Workshop that deliver Mentoring Support Messages -
              *           Four Nasty Pitfalls Besetting Teenagers (Omnipresent Advertising Traps, Salt and Fat Dependence In Fast Foods And High Caffeine Drinks, Quicksand Of Recreational Drug Dependence, Motor Vehicle Fatality Rates Amongst Drivers Under 25); and
              *           Combating Life's Negative Stressors With Regular Positive Stressors
  Biggest Loser, The Block, and MasterChef are contests about weight loss, home renovating, cooking. None are Rocket Science. However, the awareness that the contestants know that their efforts will be on national RTV provides an enormous Motivational Incentive to all associated with the RTV programme, to strive to perform to their utmost.
  The Australian TV audience can evidence Unlucky Australians receiving 1. and 2. above during 34 x One Hour RTV Episodes of "Attaining Teenager Life Skills" where the Motivational Incentive Of RTV induces max. commitment from 140 Accepted Year 9 Aboriginal Students, Ten Indigenous Local Connectors, 30 x Wise Old Owls, 12 x Sporting Role Models. Ten CEO's will enjoy enhanced Brand Name from displaying Corporate Social Responsibility.
  The initial 10  x  First Year One Hour RTV Episodes of "Attaining Teenager Life Skills" could be shown on TV (ideally ABC1) from Oct in the First Year - explained in Seeing what it is like to be an "Unlucky Australian"
  Several hundred thousand Australian teenagers, in particular Socially Disadvantaged teenagers in remote parts of Australia who are not excelling, or did not excel at junior high school, will 'see first hand' from Three Motivational Teams Challenges and also Mentoring Support Messages that they can relate to during 34  x One Hour RTV Episodes of "Attaining Teenager Life Skills", that they too can Maximise Life Opportunities.
- Question 4: What makes your idea innovative, new or different? (required)
  150 words or less. 0 of 1100 max characters
  The Try, Test and Learn Fund will trial responses that provide new and useful policy evidence for Government. For more information on what is considered new or innovative please refer to the Try, Test and Learn Fund Handbook.
  
  Draws upon 'the union' of Motivational Incentive of RTV and the Administrative and Funding capability of Ten Corporate Sponsors [within Australia's largest companies across 10 industry sectors] that each provide Three Philanthropic Elder Colleagues that possess Three Wise Old Owl Qualities to use their Project Development Expertise and bring Complimentary Low Cost Initiatives to Administer the 'Aboriginal Teenager Life Skills' Early Intervention Programme to achieve Thirteen Deliverables which includes Public Relations Bonanza for Ten Corporate Sponsors and Closing The Gap In Indigenous Disadvantage.
  
  In addition to the above differences, my 'idea' deploys the same extensive 'due diligence' protocols Programme Budget Costs, Executive Summary, +200 Defined Terms and Documents, Structure Diagram, Thirteen Deliverables, SWOT Analysis, What, Who, Where, When, Why, How & How much?, Information Memorandum and other benchmarking measurement formats used by Risk Mgt committees to determine which Investment Banks' "new deals" are worth lending to. Six different risks are considered - credit, market, operational, reputation, systemic, keyman.
- Question 5: What hypothesis will your idea test? (required)
  150 words or less.
  Provide a question to be answered, or a hypothesis that would be tested, by the delivery and evaluation of your idea. For example, a program aimed at helping migrant communities into study through tailored education services could have the hypothesis: Do education services tailored to migrant communities help migrants into study?
  
  Will the union of the Motivational Incentive of RTV, a Indigenous Local Connector (retired school teacher or policeman) in each of the Six Regional Townships and 30 Philanthropic Elder Colleagues that possess Three Wise Old Owl Qualities (keen to give something back to Unlucky Australians) -
  
  (i)         effectively use their Project Development Expertise and bring Complimentary Low Cost Initiatives to display Corporate Social Responsibility during 34 x One Hour RTV Episodes of "Attaining Teenager Life Skills"
  
  (ii)        thereby be a Public Relations Bonanza For Ten Corporate Sponsors ; and
  
  (iii)       do what has never been done in Bourke NSW - deliver a cost-effective preventative health programme?
  
  Will the high 'Working age payment recipients' presently directed at Bourke, Walgett, Alice Springs 'et al' noticeably reduce within 5 years as New Role Models surface In Ten Isolated Country Towns through Building Upon Valuable Survival Skills that Enhance Pride In These Towns to Chip Away To Fracture The Welfare Dependence Cycle.
- Question 6: What activities and changes would you expect to see at each of the following points in time?
  The following questions ask you to outline what activities would happen, and (most importantly) what outcomes you would expect to see, if your ideas was running as intended. Emphasise how these outcomes relate to workforce participation or capacity to work. This will help us understand how your idea would work in practice and how it could be evaluated (including critical success factors we can measure). It will also help us understand your theory of change. A theory of change explains how project activities are expected to change behaviour or pathways, and the incremental steps that lead to the project’s outcomes.
- Question 6a: 3 months' time (required)
  50 words or less - 0 of 400 max characters.
  
  End April 2018: Increased confidence from 30 Elder Colleagues, Ten Indigenous Local Connectors and 140 Accepted Students from 10 Lowest Socio-Economic Regions that the Year 9 Mixed Teams' Tri-Sports Challenge will take place in the coming Sept school holidays with five Regional Township Teams competing in Adelaide and another five Regional Township Teams in Brisbane.
- Question 6b: 6 months' time (required)
  50 words or less - 0 of 400 max characters
  End July 2018: 120 Accepted Students will shortly fly or coach to either Brisbane of Adelaide to compete in the mixed Year 9 Mixed Teams' Tri-Sports Challenge (Soccer, Tennis & Basketball) in the imminent Sept school holidays - shown over 10 x one hour episodes of "Attaining Teenager Life Skills" from late Oct in the First Year.
- Question 6c: 12 months' time (required)
  50 words or less - 0 of 400 max characters
  End Feb 2023: Following the RTV success of the Year 9 Mixed Teams' Tri-Sports Challenge (Soccer, Tennis & Basketball), the 14 Accepted Students at each of Six Regional Townships will commence acquiring Public Speaking And Speech Preparation Skills by initially preparing one minute speeches on topics that interest them and progressively increasing the duration of their speeches and the complexity of their topics, under the tutelage of their Indigenous Local Connector and supported by Thirty Philanthropic Elder Colleagues that deliver eight of the of the Eleven Mentoring Roles.
- Question 6d: The longer term (around 2 to 5 years) (required)
  50 words or less - 0 of 400 max characters
  Thirteen Deliverables include:
  
  *            Closing The Gap In Indigenous Disadvantage
  
  *            Targets The Indigenous Advisory Council's Three Priority Areas
  
  *            Enables New Role Models In Isolated Country Towns By Building Upon Valuable Survival Skills - Enhance Pride In These Towns
  
  *            Chip Away To Fracture The Welfare Dependence Cycle
  
  *            Facilitates Social Citizenship And Achieves Benefits Of Social Inclusion
Optional Questions
- Question 7: How would your idea be delivered?
  150 words or less - 0 of 1100 max characters
  This question is optional and allows you to explain any details you have on how your idea could be put into practice. This could include details on expected participant type and numbers, staffing, location and reach. If you have an estimation of the timeframes or cost of your idea, detail it in your answer.
  The delivery vehicle is the Life Skills Philanthropic Service Movement referred to in:
  
  1.          ATLSEIP
  
  2.          SWOT Analysis
  
  3.          Executive Summary
  
  4.          What, Who, Where, When, Why, How & How much?
  
  5.          Programme Budget Costs (20 worksheets - $50,000 pa by each of Ten Corporate Sponsors aggregates to $1,500,000 over three years)
  
  6.          Business Case Questions
  
  7.          Structure Diagram
  
  8.          How To Proceed With ATLSEIP
  
  9.          Why The ABC Should Proceed With ATLSEIP
- Question 8: Have you consulted with anyone in preparing this idea?
  150 words or less - 0 of 1100 max characters
  This question is optional, however your response to this question may strengthen our understanding of your idea.. Consultation and collaboration, particularly with the people potentially affected by your idea, is a goal of the Try, Test and Learn Fund.
  I have provided ATLSEIP on CD to a retired Chairman of Mallesons and a retired senior exec at Macq Bank whom I have know for many years. Neither questioned my extensive R&D. They are interested if I can enthuse you.
- Question 9: Are you working with other funders or co-funders on this idea? If so, please provide details.
  
  50 words or less 150 words or less - 0 of 1100 max characters
  This question is optional and allows you to provide information about other funders or co-funders if you wish.
  Refer Question 8. ATLSEIP is fully Funded and Administered by Ten Corporate Sponsors for the Three Benefits To Ten Corporate Sponsors (1. enhance Brand Name and display Corporate Social Responsibility 2. 30 x Wise Old Owls 'cap-off' their careers working on satisfying Social Inclusion Programme 3. 10 x Younger Indigenous Corporate Sponsor Sports Employees benefit from a marvelous 'career development experience'.
- Question 10: Do you have a proposed approach for evaluating your idea?
  
  150 words or less 150 words or less - 0 of 1100 max characters
  
  This question is optional, however if you have considered how your idea could be tested and evaluated this may help us better understand the value of your idea. Evaluation is central to the Try, Test and Learn Fund and if your idea is selected, designing effective evaluation approaches will be a key part of the co-development process.
  
  Yes. Largest 10 Australian companies each opt to establish within 5 years of the Third RTV Year a Philanthropic Transition to Retirement Division ("PTRD") within their Human Resources (Public Relations) division because of the benefit to "their bottom line" of Wise Old Owls delivering cost-effective Social Inclusion programmes - energised by the Motivational Incentive Of RTV and quantified on their 'balance sheet' .
- Question 11: Do you want to tell us anything else about your idea?
  150 words or less 150 words or less - 0 of 1100 max characters
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  This question is optional. Include any additional information you think may be relevant for us to effectively consider your idea that is not captured in any of the above questions.
  ATLSEIP is not an idea. Unless an 'inspiration' is "fully fleshed out" with comprehensive R&D in the nine benchmarking techniques listed in Question 7 above, a lot of 'learning' mistakes will be made and fiscal purse wasted. Understanding six different risks in Question 4 are integral.

Publishing

Publishing your idea (required)
The Try, Test and Learn Fund wants to foster an open and collaborative approach to developing policies and programs. By publishing your idea and contact information on DSS Engage, you help to foster this collaborative process. Your response to questions 1, 2 and 3 will be published. Alternatively, you can write a public summary of your idea below which will be displayed instead of your responses to questions 1, 2 and 3.
- I am happy for my answers to questions 1, 2 and 3 to be published on DSS Engage
- I would like to provide a summary of my idea to be published
Summary of your idea (required)
200 words or less. 0 of 1400 max characters
Please provide a summary of your idea below to be published on DSS Engage. You may reuse parts of your submission. Note that your response to this question will not be part of your assessment.

Replacement of an existing published idea
If you have had an idea submission published on DSS Engage, you can elect to replace that submission with a modified or new submission. For more information, please consult the Try, Test and Learn Fund handbook.
- This submission replaces an existing submission published on DSS Engage

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