Four Hume City councillors and a member of staff are attending the National General Assembly of the Local Government Association (LGA) in Canberra this week.
The four-day event ends Friday 27 June and the theme of this year’s conference is ‘national priorities need local solutions’.
According to a list published by the LGA, among the 537 attendees representing councils from across the country are Hume City councillors Jarrod Bell, Naim Kurt, Sam Misho, and Karen Sherry. Joining them is the council’s head of government relations & advocacy Joel Kimber.
The council had three items on the agenda calling for the government to:
- Recognise outer metropolitan growth areas as regions requiring specific attention in Commonwealth funding programs
- Resource equitably through a national infrastructure investment framework for growth areas
- Prioritise funding from existing programs to fix the infrastructure deficits in growth areas
In addition to seminars covering housing, AI, climate change, safer roads, emergency management, and cuts to budgets for asylum seekers, were diners and tours of a local glassworks, high-tea at Lake Burley Griffin, lunch at The Dock in Kingston, a visit to The Australian War Memorial, and the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House.
