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# Alicia McKay to appear at exclusive CEO Breakfast Workshop in Adelaide, 26 June 2024
- URL: https://www.aliciamckay.co.nz/alicia-mckay-to-appear-at-exclusive-ceo-breakfast-workshop-in-adelaide-26-june-2024/
- Published: 2024-06-26T00:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-28T20:50:13.000Z
- Description: Talking about Eiffel Tower leadership and local government challenges with LGASA
- Author: Alicia McKay
- Tags: #event, Events

Local government is a victim of political gaslighting?! 

Humour me: Councils work within a regime of contradictions. 

They provide services within a legislative framework that requires elections, community engagement, and consultative decisions - and are asked why their operations aren’t more efficient. 

They confront increasingly constrained funding environments and watch their share of the total tax take decrease over decades - only for those financial struggles to be used as evidence that they’re bad with money. 

They absorb the ongoing transfer of costs, services and responsibilities from state and non-profit actors - before being accused of scope creep and told to ‘get back to basics.’ 

They are mandated to make intergenerational decisions on infrastructure and community facilities – and rebuked for using intergenerational funding mechanisms. 

In short, local government is a victim of political gaslighting.

Just one of the yarns spun at a CEO Breakfast with [LGA South Australia](https://www.linkedin.com/company/lga-of-sa/?ref=aliciamckay.co.nz) in Adelaide this morning! Yes, this was as much fun as it looked. 

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