Local Convos

Get involved in shaping what it means to be 'a local'

The City has recently reviewed our community engagement to provide an increased focus on two-way conversations that listen and respond with a local focus.  The new Locally-led approach supports a greater understanding of what is important locally and tapping into local knowledge on matters of strategic importance.

Community engagement in this way helps drive deeper connection, participation, and engagement at a local level to shape service delivery and achieve our shared priorities.

Our Local Convos series was designed to support the community in getting together to chat about local needs, deepen connection and identify local priorities.

To help the City listen and respond with a local focus at each of the conversations, we invited the community to cast their vote on our suburb profiles about what local issue they wanted to talk about further.

To celebrate the 30 days of September the City's Community Engagement Team hosted a local walk in each of the City's 30 suburbs. These walks were established to help get to know your local area, deepen connection and chat about local needs.

The strong attendance across all of the Local Convos and Walking Together events made a powerful statement about the importance of your suburb to the local community. 

We would like to thank the 3,542 locals who cast their vote online or attended a Local Convo! With your help we have refined over 3,392 community ideas and suggestions and identified the final 185 local focus priorities. The top local priorities for each suburb have been shared to suburb profiles and will be presented to Council.