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Child poverty in rich nations: BSL Conference Melbourne 05

19 Dec 2005
Read excerpts from coverage of this month's Child Poverty conference, held in Melbourne by the Brotherhood of St Laurence. International speakers included CPAG UK's Kate Green.
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Media coverage of CTC case

28 Nov 2005
Articles from the media reporting on, and responding to, news of CPAG's win at preliminary hearings to the Human Rights Review Tribunal
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Casualties of apathy

19 Nov 2005
Talk to some people about child poverty and they will flatly tell you that the parents are to blame. "There's this idea that poor children must have feckless parents, who fritter away all the money," says Kate Green, chief executive of the Child Poverty Action Group in Britain, who will be the guest speaker at the Brotherhood of St Laurence's child poverty conference in Melbourne next month.
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Donna Wynd: Election weblog on housing and child poverty

7 Sep 2005
Donna Wynd says she can't find a press release trumpeting this from the rooftops, but it appears that National want to bring back one of their most hated policies from the 1990s. Please, step out for an encore Mr Market-Rents-for-State-House-Tenants...
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Election weblogs on child poverty and tax

5 Sep 2005
Laila Harre, Donna Wynd and others have commented online on the likely impact of promised "tax cuts" for families on low incomes. Read excerpts from the NZ Herald election blog here.
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Election 05: Family tax policy

5 Sep 2005
This article from the NZ Herald compares National and Labour party tax policy in relation to families and poverty.
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Early Childhood funding widened

5 Sep 2005
One of Labour's election promises has been to widen Working for Families ECE funding increases to include private centres. Read the Herald article about this here.
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Asher and Wakim: Impacts of dismal decade still being felt

2 Aug 2005
In his NZ Herald column headlined "The myth of the evil decade" Jim Eagles analysed certain economic policies of the 90s and found them to his satisfaction. He concluded that maybe the 90s wasn't such a bad time. Innes Asher and Janfrie Wakim argue that before we jump to any such apparently happy endings, we need to look at the social as well as economic policies of the time, and their effects on us all, not just some workers and those in business.
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Kirsten Hanna: Kids first in policy making

29 Jul 2005
NZ Herald 29.07.05 Would you elect a party whose policies would plunge many thousands of children into poverty-induced misery? No, of course you wouldn't - at least not knowingly.
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St John: Don't ignore the poorest children

17 Jun 2005
Susan St John urges a rethink on Working for Families' discriminatory In Work Payment
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Chilly new year for Kiwi kids

5 Jan 2005
CPAG has criticised the government's social policy plan for the next 3-5 years for failing to make child poverty a priority action area. The plan, titled "œOpportunity for all New Zealanders", instead looks set to allow long-term, structural underinvestment in our most vulnerable children to continue unchecked.
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