For me, collaboration doesn’t mean always agreeing with each other. But it does mean recognising that we each have something to offer. Communities work best when all residents feel involved. It’s often the small things we do that make the difference and help people to feel connected.
The past few years have been very tough for households on low to middle incomes. As we reported, over-indebtedness (the proportion of households spending 25% or more of their income on unsecured debt repayments) increased between 2012 and the end of 2014.