Discussion Paper 2016/01: A Queenstown Lakes District perspective on tackling poverty is now available online. The purpose of this paper is to bring to light the issues raised by locals at the one-day TacklingPovertyNZ tour workshop in the Queenstown Lakes District, held on 29 March, 2016. The views expressed in this paper represent those of the workshop participants on the day, who themselves represented the Queenstown Lakes District Community at large. This paper describes the structure of the one-day workshop, sets out the main discussion themes raised by participants and presents the solutions they proposed at the close of the workshop.
You can download the paper here.
A similar discussion paper will be produced for each TacklingPovertyNZ tour workshop, and together they will provide an insight into the different regional perspectives on poverty in New Zealand, in order to inform national decision-making and to support local initiatives. For this reason, this paper remains in final draft form – we will align the papers as a series once the tour has come to a close.