We will embrace a new approach to advocacy for key policy recommendations and funding requests to State and Federal Governments. We will develop Advocacy Action Plans for key city-shaping initiatives, which acknowledges their complexity and addresses the challenges through incremental staging and evidence-based progression.
Renewed support for regional collaboration initiatives. Regional collaboration is at the heart of the Greater Newcastle Metro Plan, and many challenges facing the city do not start and stop with local government area boundaries. Pressing regional challenges like transportation and environmental planning require collaboration across borders, and between sectors.
Strategic policy pressure alongside peer cities nationally through the Gateway Cities Alliance. The Alliance is seeking to influence key decision-makers on the strategic and economic value of investing in mid-tier cities or Gateway Cities (like Newcastle), particularly in a post COVID-19 world.