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04/04/11

Legislation can’t achieve best practice consultation?

Neil Savery, CEO of the ACT Planning and Land Agency, was today quoted in the Canberra Times as saying ‘it would be very difficult to mandate by legislation or practice what community consultation should comprise’.  We agree with Neil that you can’t have a ‘one size fits all’ model of community engagement, but this year we’ll be exploring how to move beyond the various ‘best practice models’ that exist around Australia to a national framework for community engagement.