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Community Consultation or Community Control?

Shoalhaven City Council meet for its last Ordinary Meeting of 2025 on Tuesday 16 December 2025. One of the first items listed was - Agenda Item: CEO CL25.418 Proposal to Reform Community Consultative Bodies (CCB) Model of Engagement.  Your Committee firmly believes this is not genuine reform, but a process that devalues and ultimately tries to dismantle the Community Consultative Body (CCB) model.We strongly reject the claim that any real community consultation has occurred.  What happened at the CCB Executive meeting on 1 December 2025  was an announcement, not a discussion. Members were simply told that Council intended to “reform” the…

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