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Cities for Safe and Healthy Communities

APRIL–MAY 2009

UPCOMING EVENTS

CSHC workshop: Melbourne, 15 May 2009

The second CSHC workshop for Foundation Councils will focus on finalising key elements of the data management strategy. This includes feedback on a data inventory tool and a priority setting exercise to identify what supports councils need to make use of this new tool.

Taking up the social sustainability agenda: ICLEI Oceania at the LGMA National Congress, 25 May 2009

ICLEI Oceania will showcase CSHC work at a breakfast session during the Local Government Management Association (LGMA) Conference in Darwin on 25 May 2009.

CEOs from CSHC Foundation Councils will describe the benefits they have received and expect from this initiative, and how councils from across Australia can become involved. For further information or to register for this event, please contact the ICLEI Oceania Events Team, Ph: +61 (0)3 9639 8688.

CSHC PROGRAM NEWS

Announcing the Cities for Safe and Healthy Communities program

: Photo by D Sharon Pruitt. Courtesy of Flickr Creative Commons

Councils are invited to join ICLEI Oceania’s new social sustainability program, Cities for Safe and Healthy Communities (CSHC). The CSHC program, commencing in July 2009, will assist councils to build vibrant and resilient communities – fundamental to community sustainability.

The first CSHC program element focuses on alcohol, tobacco and drugs harm minimisation. It seeks to use local government functions to better plan safe and healthy communities by managing liquor outlet density and operating hours, encouraging mixed use and diverse economic activities, supporting sporting facilities and clubs, and leading local networks to manage alcohol and other drugs-related harms.

With the valued input from 20 foundation member councils who have worked with ICLEI Oceania in an establishment phase since 2008, we have gained valuable feedback to develop the basis of a complete program management process.

We are therefore pleased to announce the program's launch and invite you to join, attend a briefing session in your state or request further information. Places in the program are limited.

Please contact Mark Boyd, Director – Cities for Safe and Healthy Communities, or see the How to join page on the CSHC website.

Calling for best practice examples in alcohol harms management

As part of the CSHC establishment phase, ICLEI Oceania is developing a best practice guide for local government on alcohol and other drugs harm management.

ICLEI members and participating councils wishing to nominate examples of their own work, or promising practices identified elsewhere, are encouraged to contact the CSHC Project Officer, Emma Clark, Ph: +61 (0)3 9660 2206.

NEW RESOURCES

Presentations: Healthy Cities and Binge Drinking

Recent ICLEI Oceania presentations to the Binge Drinking Summit and the Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association Conference 2009 are now available to CSHC Foundation Councils by logging in to the CSHC webpages.

Alcopops submission – April 2009

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ICLEI Oceania made a submission to the Senate Inquiry into the Excise Duty Tariff Amendment Bill, arguing that each tier of government has responsibility for a range of policy levers. Nationally, that includes using pricing and taxation strategies to reduce the alcohol toll on local communities.

In order to do its work most effectively, local government needs national and state governments to play their roles effectively as well. A continued tax on ready-to-drink products and a move towards volumetric taxation of alcohol are important national policy strategies to have implemented.

A copy of our submission is available for download from the CSHC Advocacy webpage.

CONTACT CSHC

If you have any questions or comments please contact Mark Boyd, Director – Cities for Safe and Healthy Communities, Ph: +61 (0)3 9660 2224.

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