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

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

Fronting up to the community is key to ethical leadership — and wins public trust
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Fronting up to the community is key to ethical leadership — and wins public trust

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Buck-passing is all too easy within a bureaucracy — indeed, in a large organisation governed by rules it is often difficult to fault anyone in particular. Yet when things go really wrong and people’s lives are seriously affected, it’s not enough just to say “it’s complicated”. The community wants to know their complaints have been […]