CM Hon. Lianne Dalziel

Central and local government should work as a partnership – we need to break down administrative silos – build trust and social capital by bringing people together - we must get better at funding the fences at the tops of the cliffs – we need to reinvigorate scientific input into government and make the evidence base of policy very clear – there is a lot of scope for anticipatory education of responders and the community – cross party support critical for big issues like climate but party politics often gets in the way – in policy, form should follow function which is not how the local government amalgamation is occurring

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