MS MACKENZIE: No, that’s me; I’m from and should have picked the right Mantra on Murray. Thanks to the fellow that I rang, pointing me in the right direction. MR SPENCER: Stewart, who’s sitting at the back of the room. MS MACKENZIE: And I’m glad I wasn’t around, MR SPENCER: Thanks, Michelle. I ask the Western Australian Local Government Association representatives to now come to the table? Good morning. So just for the transcript, could I ask each of you just to say your names, please, and your position with WALGA? MS HOLBROOK: Certainly. If I may, I would like to put in apologies first. This week is our annual convention and our annual general assembly, so our CEO Ricky Burges wanted to express her apologies for today. My name is Jodie Holbrook; I’m the Policy Manager of Community at WALGA. MR SPENCER: Thank you. MS HEWSON: I’m Nina Hewson, Senior Policy Advisor at Community. MR SPENCER: Thank you, welcome. So perhaps if we could hand to you at this point to identify the issues you’d like to focus on. Certainly. We do have a submission, we have not MS HOLBROOK: finalised it yet. Our board meets in a couple of weeks so we need to go through a process before we can provide it. However, we did provide Stewart with some dot points. We would like to take the opportunity to say thank you for a great piece of work, it was a huge piece of work for us to go through, and in terms of what is within both this report and the former report, we have quite broad comments to make and we do go across most of the areas, so we’re happy to have a discussion across all of them today. Nina, did you want to add any? MS HEWSON: We were just going to give an overview on WALGA, if you’d like, to start off with? Yes, thank you. MR SPENCER: MS HEWSON: So the WA Local Government Association represents 138 local governments within Western Australia, to support the business of local government. We’re a part of a network of local government associations within Australia, so at current we liaise often with the other
MS MACKENZIE: No, that’s me; I’m from and should have picked the right Mantra on Murray. Thanks to the fellow that I rang, pointing me in the right direction. MR SPENCER: Stewart, who’s sitting at the back of the room. MS MACKENZIE: And I’m glad I wasn’t around, MR SPENCER: Thanks, Michelle. I ask the Western Australian Local Government Association representatives to now come to the table? Good morning. So just for the transcript, could I ask each of you just to say your names, please, and your position with WALGA? MS HOLBROOK: Certainly. If I may, I would like to put in apologies first. This week is our annual convention and our annual general assembly, so our CEO Ricky Burges wanted to express her apologies for today. My name is Jodie Holbrook; I’m the Policy Manager of Community at WALGA. MR SPENCER: Thank you. MS HEWSON: I’m Nina Hewson, Senior Policy Advisor at Community. MR SPENCER: Thank you, welcome. So perhaps if we could hand to you at this point to identify the issues you’d like to focus on. MS HOLBROOK: Certainly. We do have a submission, we have not finalised it yet. Our board meets in a couple of weeks so we need to go through a process before we can provide it. However, we did provide Stewart with some dot points. We would like to take the opportunity to say thank you for a great piece of work, it was a huge piece of work for us to go through, and in terms of what is within both this report and the former report, we have quite broad comments to make and we do go across most of the areas, so we’re happy to have a discussion across all of them today. Nina, did you want to add any? MS HEWSON: We were just going to give an overview on WALGA, if you’d like, to start off with? MR SPENCER: Yes, thank you. MS HEWSON: So the WA Local Government Association represents 138 local governments within Western Australia, to support the business of local government. We’re a part of a network of local government associations within Australia, so at current we liaise often with the other
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