What gap did the founders identify that wasn't being addressed elsewhere?

So ASAP emerged quite organically really from a group of local government adaptation practitioners who formed a voluntary organisation a few years ago to essentially help people who are doing a job that hadn't existed before to come together and share their experiences and knowledge.

And about 18 months or so ago that had reached the point where ASAP There were lots of people who weren't part of local government who wanted to be part of the conversation.

We were really aware that there were key capability actions within the National Adaptation Plan that needed to be met somehow and practitioners wanted to be part of that conversation.

And so the idea was formed to actually create an incorporated society, formalise this, actually stand this up as a professional body and help to build a professional practice around adaptation.

And so now we, you know, we have people in local government, consulting, infrastructure, central government, academia, EOE, community organisations across the board.

And they don't necessarily just have adaptation in their job title either.

What are some of the biggest misconceptions you encounter when talking about adaptation?

What did you see in the aftermath of what happened last night?

Well, I mean, it, there was a lot of, um, disturbance in the area where Henry died, and that's where damage was done, mostly to people's properties and g-general sort of, you know, the street, street sort of, um, stuff flown around and bins flown around and stuff like that.

Um, to be honest, it's not actually looking that bad because we have an amazing, uh, cleansing team who, who, who literally got up in the early hours of this morning to go to get started and clear up the mess and to assess any further damage that might have been caused by these protesters who then turned violent.

'Cause the initial protest wasn't violent, but it started fairly peacefully, maybe loudly, but didn't...

You know, the, people have a right to protest.

But for some reason, um, they decided to go and walk about a mile up the road to where the incident happened, and then that's when things got very, very, um, unpleasant.

Um, uh, are you worried that that work might be undermined or thrown out because of the reaction to this case?

I think we'll just have to wait and see.