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19 Dec 2005
A highlight of this month's Melbourne conference for child poverty advocates was the Sambell oration by Kate Green, CEO of CPAG UK. It looks back over the group's 40-year history and considers the lessons learned and the work ahead.
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1 Sep 2005
Laila Harre asks why some politicians seem to think the poor need to be punished into getting rich in her speech from the launch of CPAG's report on work-for-the-dole policies. And she says tax cuts will only increase income inequality in a country that has held the record for growth in inequality for many of the last 20 years.
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12 Aug 2005
Sue Bradford, Green Party, presents the first reading of her private members bill to Parliament.
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20 May 2005
Prof Innes Asher asks why the word "children" appears only 3 times in the 18-page 2005 Budget speech
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20 May 2005
Economist Dr Susan St John asked why successive budgets have failed to ensure adequate income assistance for the poorest children, at CPAG's fifth annual post-Budget breakfast, May 2005
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7 Mar 2005
Dr Susan St John's speech to mark International Women's Day. St John said the poverty of women and children were inextricably linked and called on women's groups to take up the child poverty challenge.
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