Unsettling complacencies: EPA Chair Kate Auty wants public servants to resist retreating into their comfort zone

By David Donaldson

July 23, 2020

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It’s not enough to keep having “the same old conversations”, argues new Victorian EPA Chair Kate Auty. For her, that has meant talking to sports fans about climate change, convincing local communities about Aboriginal sentencing courts, and boosting the readership of environmental reports.

Kate Auty’s career has been incredibly varied.

Kate Auty
Kate Auty

She started out as a lawyer, worked on the deaths in custody investigation in Western Australia in the early 1990s, has been a magistrate in both Victoria and WA, led the introduction of Aboriginal sentencing courts in Shepparton and Kalgoorlie, has been environmental sustainability commissioner in both Victoria and the ACT, and recently took over as chair of Victoria’s Environment Protection Authority from Cheryl

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