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Beyond The Boundary: Integrating Public Input Into Local Council Policy Making, Ned Wales, Susanne Taylor
Beyond The Boundary: Integrating Public Input Into Local Council Policy Making, Ned Wales, Susanne Taylor
Ned Wales
: In Australia’s peri-urban regions, communities on the boundary between rural and urban seek to influence government policies relating to land use, development, changing settlement patterns, farming, youth employment and social services. In response, local Councils use a wide array of deliberative consultation techniques to provide input to the policy process ranging Yet, the use of community data in local government policy-making is largely informal that is, it does not undergo formal processes to guide the selection of consultation techniques, and statutory guidelines are limited to assist local government planners to use consultation data once gathered. This paper focuses on …