14 Oct 2019
Young councillors hot on tackling climate change
Councils can expect more pressure from their own ranks to tackle climate change with a new crop of young councillors determined to fight it head on. There's been a marked increase in the number of young people and women elected to office. A quarter of the country's mayors are now women, up from 19 percent in 2016, and five mayors are under 40. Hamish Cardwell filed this report.