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Enhancing Local Government Through Deliberative Democracy
Yarra councillor Amanda Stone has delivered her report on enhancing local government through deliberative democracy, resulting from her Local Government Fellowship from the Municipal Association of Victoria: Local Government Fellowship The Local Government Fellowship is open to all Victorian councillors and supports the winner to undertake international research and study of a policy area of…
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Supported by the community as a whole
The City of Yarra has adopted a Road Safety Study Policy which refuses to consider modal filters as a possible treatment, based on the claim that they have “not been supported by the community (as a whole)”. That is the wrong approach. Instead, council should state that: high volumes of traffic reduce the liveability of…
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Democracy Agenda – publish reports
The Australia Institute has published a democracy agenda for the 47th Parliament: Including a recommendation that reports from consultants be published: This mirrors the proposal made by Streets Alive Yarra in December 2021 for the City of Yarra to publish all reports it receives from consultants: Now, in the light of the report from the…
