And here an Australian paper arguing the importance of diversity for communities to prosper.
The South Coast Register has called on me to come up with specific policy. Among my specific objectives is to avoid pulling specific decisions out of my pocket. This seems an important core concept. Somewhere, in the process, firm decisions have to be taken on projects and on broad plans. But it is not for me to go to an election with a whole bundle of specific commitments invented out of the air.
Systemic change is a very specific objective. Saying that we must, with communities, find new ways of integrating community with council process is very specific. I do not venture to say exactly how it is to be done. Plants (and people) grow from seeds. This is a seeding idea. I place those links above not to suggest they provide the answers but to make clear that such things are being ventured elsewhere and ought to be ventured here. The worst thing you can do in any innovation process is say -especially for government to say - do this. Which inevitably turns out wrong, because it wasn't developed and agreed in a team environment, there is no commitment to it, it is just another imposition. Which is what we have to escape from...
