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When the results are formally declared, it’s likely that the turnout in our local body elections will prove as lacklustre as in previous years.

Despite our councils grappling with expensive infrastructure decisions and being tasked with reshaping our cities to help cut greenhouse gas emissions, many of us just aren’t interested in local politics.

Young people in particular tend to fall into two camps – an activist

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