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Ku-ring-gai backs four community roundtables to run by June 2027
Council has endorsed a new Community Roundtable Initiative covering social harmony, gambling harm, disability inclusion, and mental health and wellbeing.
Ku-ring-gai Council has endorsed a Community Roundtable Initiative, with four themed roundtables to be delivered by June 2027, according to minutes from its 28 April ordinary meeting.
The resolution backs roundtables on social harmony and community relations, gambling harm awareness and prevention, disability access and inclusion, and mental health and wellbeing.
The minutes state the initiative was presented as a formal engagement framework for community leaders, service providers, government representatives, academic institutions and residents to discuss issues of community significance and identify collaborative responses.
For the gambling harm roundtable, the minutes say council expects targeted input on local gambling trends, including electronic gaming machines and online and mobile gambling, the social and economic impacts of harm in Ku-ring-gai, local support services, and approaches used by other councils within existing legislative frameworks.
The minutes also state outcomes from that roundtable will inform a councillor briefing or workshop on local trends, impacts, service capacity and comparative approaches, and may help shape council's understanding of advocacy opportunities and gambling-related considerations in planning and place-based decisions.
Council's resolution did not allocate a budget in the extracted material. The minutes say the initiative is proposed to be supported through collaboration with the Macquarie University PACE Program, subject to final arrangements.
The resolution was carried unanimously among councillors present. The next step recorded in the minutes is delivery of the four roundtables by June 2027.
Key facts from the minutes
- Ku-ring-gai Council endorsed the Community Roundtable Initiative at its ordinary meeting on 28 April 2026.
- The initiative includes four roundtables on social harmony and community relations, gambling harm awareness and prevention, disability access and inclusion, and mental health and wellbeing.
- The roundtables are to be delivered by June 2027.
- The minutes say the gambling harm roundtable will consider local trends, impacts, service capacity and other councils' approaches.
- The minutes state outcomes of the gambling harm roundtable will inform a councillor briefing or workshop.
- The resolution was carried unanimously among councillors present.
Why it matters
- The decision creates new council-backed forums on social and wellbeing issues that could inform future local advocacy, briefings and council decision-making.
Source and method
Source: Ku-ring-gai Council ordinary meeting minutes, 28 April 2026.