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Stretching the Future
People Power
Responses to population dynamics
| Presenters: |
Professor Richard Bedford
Waikato University |
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Matt Hoskin
Enterprise Marketing Manager, Venture Southland
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Murray Brass
Economic Development Manager, Clutha District Council |
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Jude Ryan-O'Dea
Canterbury Chamber of Commerce |
Key Points
- New Zealand's mobility is high with over half the population moving address between census.
- There are more older people in the workforce due to the ageing population.
- New Zealand's natural population increase is slowing - immigration will be a significant factor in maintaining our population.
- Measuring and selling the benefits of bringing in immigrant employees to employers and the wider community is important. These benefits accrue to the local economy and school rolls, as well as to the individual employer.
- Migrants generally choose New Zealand for lifestyle reasons - the less populous regions can offer this as well as anywhere in New Zealand.
- Recent changes to the immigration policy supports targeting immigrants to a specific job rather than immigrants arriving under the general skills category with unrealistic expectations and/or qualifications that are not recognised in New Zealand.
- In the future, planning for development will involve catering for a very different social landscape.
- The past can be made irrelevant, if you choose to change your future.
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