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Collaboration across boundaries is an elusive ideal in public administration. Recognizing and facing up to the known obstacles and pitfalls them is essential when designing or participating in attempts to ‘govern together.’ Designing and sustaining collaborative practices in policy design and service delivery requires leadership, but not of the conventional kind.

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Dr. Evert Lindquist (PhD Berkley) is a Professor and Director at the University of Victoria’s School of Public Administration, which offers the MPA and MPA Online programs, as well as MAs in Dispute Resolution and Community Development, a PhD in Public Administration, undergraduate Diploma and Minor programs.

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Ben is an author, cancer survivor and founder of do-good communications agency, Republic of Everyone. By combining creativity with sustainability, Ben has become a regular speaker at green, ethical and social marketing events, including the Sydney Design Festival, Ethical Investor’s Green Marketing Forum, Web 2.0 for Government, Not-For-Profit Communicators' Conference and the SA Government’s Stirring the Possum.
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As former Chair of the Victorian Bushfire Reconstruction and Recovery Authority, Christine Nixon, oversaw the largest recovery and rebuilding operation Victoria has ever undertaken. Under Christine’s leadership, the Authority worked with communities, businesses, charities, local councils and other government departments to help people and communities recover and rebuild.