- Accommodating population growth and providing for demographic changes
- Responding in a timely integrated way to rapid growth (urban, rural and coastal)
- Changing how we do business in response to new realities (e.g. climate change, resource depletion and global economic crisis)
- Managing pressures on our natural environment
- Encouraging more opportunities for education and employment
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- Future proofing against increasing energy prices and unreliability
of supply
- Lobbying for investment in key regional infrastructure
- Providing housing choices
and options
- Demanding more sustainable development practices
- Precautionary approach - keeping future options open
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