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Iain Walker is the Executive Director of The newDemocracy Foundation in Australia. Their work includes producing a Handbook on Democracy Beyond Elections for the UN Democracy Fund and advisory contributions to the OECD.

Peter Hodder and Girol Karacaoglu from Victoria University of Wellington School of Government ask the question: if the core objective of good governance is to safeguard the wellbeing of current and future generations, how can governance systems be better attuned to reach these goals?

Dr Mike Reid, contributing lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington School of Government, provided a paper to the Panel of the Review that discusses what makes an effective system of local government and governance.

Professor Ingrid Burkett, co-director of the Yunus Centre at Australia’s Griffith University, shared her reflections on civic innovation and local government futures in this visual.

Dominic O'Sullivan (Te Rarawa, Ngāti Kahu) is a Professor of Political Science at Charles Sturt University, in Australia. In his address to the Panel he considers what and equal participation and partnership between Māori and the Crown mean for local government.

Dominic O'Sullivan (Te Rarawa, Ngāti Kahu) is a Professor of political science at Charles Sturt University and Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences at the Auckland University of Technology.

University of Auckland's Centre for Informed Futures, Koi Tū, and Watercare ran a citizens' assembly over four weekends from late July to early September 2022. Through this process they navigated complex conversations and made decisions alongside other Aucklanders about the long-term future of Auckland’s water supply. 

You can read all about the project at the Watercare website here. Or read this Newsroom article to see the recommendations that came from this process.

Dr Eric Crampton outlines some of the challenges local government faces in New Zealand and provides suggestions for an improved framework that enables local governments to succeed in this opinion piece presented to the Panel.

CoDigital seek to explore "how" to improve the status quo by outlining an approach to achieving the five key shifts to local government. The approach is the Future State Operating Model Design Concept V3.0.

Get Vocal in Your Local was a digital tool designed to hear the voices of rangatahi in the reshaping of local democracy, commissioned by the Review into the Future for Local Government. This report details the creation of the tool and its findings.

Beca Limited's report on collaborative models brings together insights from technical case studies, theoretical models for collaborative working and the experiences of practitioners involved in a range of cross sectoral collaboration projects. Those insights are then integrated into a potential model for collaboration at a local level that could evolve between iwi, central and local government, the private sector and non-government organisations.

This paper by Olivershaw Limited outlines the key issues in developing a more equitable funding system for local government that supports communities to thrive.

In October 2021, Wendy McGuinness and Roger Dennis facilitated a workshop with the Panel of the Review to explore how Aotearoa New Zealand’s system of local democracy and governance needs to evolve over the next 30 years to improve the wellbeing of our communities and the environment, and actively embody the Treaty partnership.

The workshop generated eight strategic questions for the Panel to consider. See these strategic questions in the McGuinness Institute Te Hononga Waka’s discussion paper here.  

ThinkPlace New Zealand have provided a report to the Panel of the Review into the Future for Local Government about how people are currently experiencing the local government-central government relationship in Aotearoa.

Te Ahukaramū Charles Royal is a music/story composer and a researcher/teacher of indigenous knowledge, including mātauranga Māori. After meeting with the Panel in December 2021 he provided four key points to be considered in the Review.