Date: 07/07/2020
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Shire seeks combined effort to tackle flood and flood risk
SUPPLIED Flood-prone areas like North Berwick have been heavily damaged in the last several weeks.
SUPPLIED Flood-prone areas like North Berwick have been heavily damaged in the last several weeks.
The Shire wants to work together with a variety of partners and agencies to tackle this problem, including the local government, the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, Canterbury Water Partnership and local governments.
It expects to have a plan for how it'll move forward by the end of the year.
In March, the New Zealand Department of Conservation estimated the risk of severe flooding in the Canterbury region alone rising by an average of three per cent, with heavy rain potentially impacting more than 700 homes.
It warned: "We are well beyond a recovery stage.
"This will be a very serious threat to the people of Canterbury, the local communities and our economy as the weather is expected to continue to be unstable and wet."
The ministry was not part of the development, and its director general Greg Smith did not respond to requests for comment.
But he said during his first year in office, the government and Shire were working together "to support those communities that face this threat, especially in the difficult times to come".
Labour said it had heard many horror stories about a lack of planning and other problems faced by the Shire.
Its Environment spokesman Jacinda Ardern said in the past decade she had received multiple requests to help improve flood-prone areas like North Berwick.
"The Shire will do everything it can to help communities recover and rebuild. We're confident this will happen."
Labour said it hoped "the current Government of the day will take steps to take this very serious issue seriously and work with the Shire".
It welcomed the government's announcement this week, but it said the Government has "lots of work ahead to make the Shire even more prosperous and safe for the people of Canterbury".
The Labour Party said it was concerned the Shire was not using the current threat of flooding as a time to act.
It said it had not received any progress on this matter since being told over Christmas.
In response to this story, an Environment Department spokesman said in a statement that the Government was investing approximately $100 million over five years on flood protection, but that there was a "huge amount of work to do" to achieve a "successful outcome".
He declined to comment on whether the Government had not spent any money on this effort, or whether it could now provide more money to support flood defences.
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Govt accused of gagging new indigenous council in East Kimberley
Updated
Queensland Government officials are facing intense criticism for blocking a council's move to create an indigenous council, despite being threatened with legal action.
The City of Burdell and City of Northcote received complaints that the new council was not following Council of Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander New South Wales (CIWNSA) code of conduct when it was established, a High Court judge has ruled.
"CIWNSA's code of conduct requires, inter alia, that Indigenous individuals be represented and a diversity of voices be included in the decisions made by councils," Justice Peter Jones wrote in a High Court order that will be used by lawyers to fight the City of Burdell's application to become an Indigenous Council.
The City of Northcote said it had followed the Code of Conduct set down by the Government.
"The CICNSS (Commission for Community Wellbeing, Integration and Transformation) is a body established by the Commonwealth Government to serve as an intergovernmental organisation for the development of community self-determination," city director Mike Worsley said.
"A council, on behalf of its members, acts within the broad-based approach that the CSO (Community Service Officer) and DIW (Diversity Officer) have adopted.
"By the same token, a council's decision to establish an Indigenous council is an official government decision made by the government and not one that is made by the relevant government department."
The City of Burdell, which was given powers by Government of the day, will now need to obtain government approval before it can begin the process of becoming an Indigenous Council.
"All of this is a result of the recent actions of the State Government to create a council that has nothing to do with Aboriginal, To
