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New Wales announces its online launch! People of Wales deserve to be provided with better ideas, better policies, better outcomes. It is the goal of New Wales to research and develop those ideas, and publicly question the policy-makers on their choices and actions. Wales has so much potential. Let’s find better ways to tap into that potential for the benefit of Wales, its people, its future, and its world. A New Wales for a better, brighter future. Find out more online at our website or on our growing social media channels: Twitter/X (@aNewWales), Facebook, Instagram & Threads. #cymru #wales #ukpolitics #selfdetermination #politics #policy #think https://lnkd.in/ejMHk4ch

The results of an external governance review have led the Métis Nation British Columbia (MNBC) to call for support from policymakers and the public to help it secure special governing status. To read the full report, visit: https://lnkd.in/g3D6C87k #MNBC #MetisinBC #BringOurChildrenHome #GoodGovernance

So let me get this right. In awarding Daniel Andrews the Companian of the Order of Australia, this is what the Federal Labor government considers "eminent service to the people and parliament of Victoria, to public health, to policy and regulatory reform, and to infrastructure development". Hotel Quarantine: Daniel Andrew's this COVID policy directly led to the death of 700 Victorians and shoved Victoria in months-long, ruinous lockdown. A policy that no one in his Labor government could remember anything about during an inquiry. Big Build: A government program so inept that it is costing Victorians $26billion dollars to build a 10-km road; and has plunged Victorians into a shocking debt of $156.2 billion and rising. Money that it is now taking out of hospitals, schools and social services to pay for. Reduction of private enterprise: Victoria was the only state in Australia to see the total number of registered businesses reduce last year - what a feat! Commonwealth Games: The government bid, won and then withdrew from hosting the Commonwealth Games. The only thing Victorians are left with is a bill of more than $589 million (and growing) as penalties for all the contracts reneged. Politicisation of the public service: Here is what the Victorian Ombudsman had to say about Daniel Andrews' and Jacinta Allan's treatment of the public service. When speaking to the public servants, "Two sentiments stood out – concern and fear. Concern about what people saw as the quickening corrosion of longstanding Westminster principles of responsible government. Fear that if they spoke up, if they were in any way identifiable as having done so, their careers would be finished." Terrorising its own population: A final feather in Daniel Andrews' cap is that Victoria police working under his guidance handcuffed and arrested a pregnant woman with no criminal record from her home in front of her young children for the crime of putting a fairly mild social media post calling for a protest. (There were many ways to handle the situation, and the police decided on the harshest.) Victorians today pay the highest fines, penalties and taxes and live with fast eroding rights, potholed roads, underfunded hospitals and public services, housing crisis, record debt, and sky rocketing energy prices. It must be Labor's idea of Utopia - hence the honour. https://lnkd.in/gwY7w6QY #DanielAndrews #Kingshonor #OAM #news #Victoria #news

An important healthcare conversation from the lens of LTC, home and community care. Looking forward to the conversation 💡

Shout out to the 2 MILLION Public Servants in Australia and the 650 MILLION worldwide: WE SEE YOU. The public sector is all about need. Wherever there's a bureaucrat, it's because society NEEDS that function done. Not many people realise that, but it's true. Every law, every position description, is written in the blood of past failures that we can't afford to let happen again. So to all of you in the Public Service, doing the good work - We see you, we value you, we’ve been there, we know it’s hard, and we’re grateful that you are here doing the work. I talk about government, and how to do it even better. Help me get this message out to the masses of Public Servants worldwide by sharing this with them. #PublicServants #PublicService #Community #BuildingCommunity #CommunityService #CommunityFirst #BuildCommunity #UpsidesTraining #Melbourne #Leadership #KeynoteSpeaker #LocalGovernment #MeaningfulChange #ProfessionalDevelopment #CareerDevelopment #KeynoteSpeakers #KeynoteSpeaking #Melbourne #EmbracingChange #PublicSector #Governement

Local government must remain ‘local’. Borough and District Councillors know their communities (or at least they should if they are proactive). Many live in the area they represent or very close to. They know the key people in the community, and they are easily accessible to engage with. A resident deserves to have a direct and accessible voice to represent their views and requests. Moving towards any unitary authority system would be disastrous for grass root representation. Councillors could be 90 miles away from a resident and their area. It won’t work. It may offer more money but local councils were created to be closer to the public and provide a more direct voice in the running of services. That’s why, as a Conservative Councillor, I have submitted a question to both Conservative leadership candidates, asking: ‘Would you support district councils remaining an important tier of local government, for areas that do not wish to enter into a unitary agreement?’ District Councils' Network Local Government Association Kemi Badenoch Robert Jenrick Cllr James B. Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Rt Hon Sir Brandon Lewis CBE

Thrilled to be part of #teamchamber since May 2020 and to continue to have the opportunity to lead, build and enhance the Canadian Chamber of Commerce’s Digital Economy, Technology and Innovation portfolios in collaboration with our stakeholders across industries, sectors, jurisdictions, populations and governments. #cdnpoli #cdneconomy #digitaleconomy #technology #innovation #cybersecurity #ai #artificialintelligence #aicomlutr #compuyr #quantum #Canada #telecommunications #ict #privacy #data

Erin Dysart, Managing Director of Strategic Initiatives at EGA member Meyer Memorial Trust, reflects on the Trust’s learning journey to develop a multifaceted approach to grantmaking rooted in justice. Erin shares three key learnings from the Trust on grantmaking to advance justice: ⚖Justice demands redress and repair: There must be explicit funding strategies to support redress, repair, and thriving in Black and Native communities. As well as integration, belonging, and thriving in immigrant communities. ⚖Justice requires shifting power: Support long-term power building in communities to build capacity for collective action. ⚖Justice requires collaboration: Collaboration amongst funders, communities, and neighbors are crucial to dismantling systems of oppression which thrive on division and isolation. Read more about how Meyer Memorial Trust is implementing justice in its grantmaking initiatives: https://lnkd.in/gfjxdGm5

We know that the UK is one of the most centralised democracies in the world, even after #devolution to The Scottish Parliament, Welsh National Assembly- The Senedd, Northern Ireland Assembly and The London Assembly. We need to push a lot of #decisionmaking much further down towards #communities and #individuals, but sometimes we need to make choices in the #national interest. You see thus acutely in #housing and #planning, where the system encourages statis. But how can we tackle this and what are the major questions? #housingcrisis #affordablehousing #planningpermission #localauthorities https://lnkd.in/e5asfM6W

We are celebrating 50 years of North Kesteven District Council over the next few months. Some years ago, a retiring colleague gave me a copy of the 1968 Redcliffe-Maud Report on Local Government Reform. The report triggered the reorganisation of Local Government in 1974, albeit in a different form to that proposed in the reports conclusions. For 50 years, local government has been making a positive difference across our communities, through day in day out delivery of essential public services, community leadership, innovation, and investment in infrastructure, economic development, local housing solutions and place. At North Kesteven, we are proud of our track record...on economic development, investment in housing, development of culture and the arts, and in our commitment to customer service and performance every day in every community. A massive thank you to the whole team for making a difference now in 2024, and every day for 50 years...and we do have one colleague who has been working for the organisation throughout its 50 year history, a remarkable achievement. And what about the next 50 years? We need to reframe the debate and encourage a step change in policy development...for example...we need a new economic model, regenerative and redistributive, designed to promote flourishing communities, address climate change and reduce inequality. We need a preventive model of public service delivery, in concept a system based approach to addressing the social determinants of health. We need to break out of the 'doom loop', and boost investment in public services and infrastructure appropriate to local need and ambition. And we need a new constitutional settlement, rebuilding global and European governance, and building on the Council of Europe Charter of Local Self Government - in character more internationalist, more local, more place based, less national. And whatever the future holds in terms of the function, purpose and form of local government, we need to reverse the 'bigger is better trend' and the centralism of the last 50 years and embrace the local, the place, and the complexity of the networks, relationships and diversity that gives shape to our communities. #localgovernment #leadership #lincolnshire #sustainabledevelopment #northkesteven District Councils' Network