Child Poverty Action Group Aotearoa New Zealand
Home > Resources > Speeches and Presentations > 2007

Speeches and Presentations

Current | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 1999

Charmaine Pountney: Vote Education and child poverty

17 May 2007
Charmaine Pountney told CPAG's Budget Breakfast she'd like to see NZ take the lead in breaking the cycle of child poverty, illness and underachievement through targeted empowerment of families based in schools as community centres.
More >>

Nikki Turner: Child health and inequality

20 Apr 2007
Dr Nikki Turner told a UNICEF forum in February that to improve child health indicators we must reduce social and economic inequities affecting children and review all government policy for its effect on them, especially the most vulnerable. Read a summary of her presentation here.
More >>

Prof Martin Thrupp: Education's inconvenient truth

22 Mar 2007
Prof Thrupp's inaugural address tackles uncomfortable questions about whose interests are really being served in and through education. He argues that schooling, long geared to the concerns and interests of the middle classes, remains so - and is even increasingly so in some ways.
More >>