1. LEADERSHIP IN A POST TRUTH WORLD
Jonathan Carr-West, LGiU, Hobart, 2017

2. HOW LOCAL GOVERNMENT CAN SAVE THE WORLD (MAYBE)

3. POST TRUTH: OED word of the year 2016
‘relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief’

4. technology changes the way we learn and think about the world

5. broader collapse of trust rejection of ‘politics as usual’

6. new oppositions closed vs open rooted vs cosmopolitan local vs global
populism vs elitism
emotion vs evidence
networks vs institutions
somewhere vs anywhere

7. post institutional politics: what does it mean for local government?

8. how to move forward reframe: it’s not a problem with “them”
you can’t beat post truth with “better” truth
focus on place
think non-institutionally: outcomes for people and places
relentless focus on participation and dialogue in everything you do