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Introduction
The 2012 LGMA National Congress and Business Expo is aimed at future-casting global and national issues with local solutions, local knowledge and local leadership. Delegates will be asked to imagine what local government will need to be in the future and how can and in fact should local government, both elected members and officers, move from a position of stewardship to leadership.
Streams
Consideration of the congress theme and streams was set within the context of recent community and world events including:
natural disasters and extreme weather events;
federal Government’s Climate Change Framework and the introduction of carbon pricing in July 2012;
debate around technology, NBN and the groundswell of support for open government and government 2.0;
debates relating to workplace literacy and workforce skills shortage;
budget cuts for local government in the context of the UK and the ever-lingering Global Financial Crisis.
For these and many other reasons the 2012 National Congress streams that are relevant to these are as follows:
Regional futures - collaboration, governance, resourcing/servicing and partnerships;
Community futures - servicing population growth and aging population; and
Climate futures - addressing cliamte related risk and building resilience.
Presentations and sessions
For the first time in congress history the presentations and examples of best practice centre of a number of relevant and timely sub-themes that cut across the above streams. Therefore, emphasis on selecting relevant case studies and presentations was placed on:
Partnership and collaboration
Technology and Gov 2.0
Small councils
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