Jensen, Leo (3C)

Strengthening Grantham A Community in Transition Leo Jensen, Group Manager Community & Development Services 2012 ICTC Conference, Gold Coast

Locality Plan

Warning The following news footage may distress some viewers

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Grantham – A Community in Transition Opportunities •New housing for those impacted •New infrastructure & investment •Open space - parklands • Building resilience • Staying together • Image of township – physical streetscaping •Positive aspirations – psychological and generational impacts (+ve) •Council in a space it had not been in beforehand

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Challenges • emotional & sentimental attachments to old township •Managing the reactions – those that stay and those that move (tensions) •Trying to bring the whole community along the journey •(third that werent impacted physically and not eligible for land swap) •Don’t feel part of the process.

•Government (process) vs external agency (different process) •Division in community (pre-existing) •Welfare dependent (freebies and hand outs) – engendering responsibility -Management of funds -Split community •Trauma ongoing – different responses

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Thank you Contact: Acknowledgements

Leo Jensen Group Manager Community & Development Services Lockyer Valley Regional Council P. (07) 54663513 M. 0408 709 222 E. ljensen@lvrc.qld.gov.au

Councillors and staff at LVRC, the many persons who have contributed to the Human and Social program since its inception; the Nine, Seven and Ten Networks for their news footage.

In particular, the people of the Lockyer Valley region who experienced the loss of loved ones.

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