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13 Nov 2008
Dr Susan St John explained CPAG's legal case alleging discrimination in the In-Work Tax Credit, in Auckland, to The Law & Economics Association of New Zealand (LEANZ) with Buddle Findlay. View her presentation here.
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29 Oct 2008
Much of the preventable disease in our children is due to the triple jeopardy of poverty, poor housing, and difficulty in accessing primary health care, says Prof. Innes Asher. To this list we can add fragmentation of health services, underfunding, and the legacy of discrimination against Maori. Keynote address to the Paediatric Society of New Zealand Annual Scientific Meeting.
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21 Sep 2008
Susan St John reflects on what has happened since the Hikoi called for income and benefit levels sufficient to move people out of poverty and for the elimination of the intolerable distress so evident at the end of the 1990s.
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10 Sep 2008
Dr Susan St John explained the rationale behind CPAG's human rights case challenging discrimination in family assistance policy since 1996, at the Every Child Counts conference in Wellington.
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28 Jul 2008
Dr Tess Ridge from the University of Bath, UK, spoke on this topic at the CPAG NZ Annual General Meeting, 2008.
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24 Jun 2008
This is the text of Prof Asher's talk to the Speakers Science Forum about preventable injuries and infectious diseases in children. The presentation gives comparisons between NZ and OECD countries and within NZ by deprivation and ethnicity and trends over time. Prof Asher then looks at factors causing these diseases and evidence-based solutions. Please also download accompanying slides.
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24 Jun 2008
These are slides from Prof Asher's talk to the Speakers Science Forum about preventable injuries and infectious diseases in children. The presentation gives comparisons between NZ and OECD countries and within NZ by deprivation and ethnicity and trends over time. Prof Asher then looks at factors causing these diseases and evidence-based solutions. Please also download accompanying text.
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29 May 2008
CPAG Economist Dr Steve Poletti found little in the Budget to prevent NZ's lowest family incomes from slipping further behind others as an economic slowdown appears.
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16 Apr 2008
Kate Green, Chief Executive of CPAG UK, gave CPAG NZ her vision of how to go about "that ambitious, admirable and entirely achievable goal : to end child poverty in rich countries, for every child, for good."
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11 Apr 2008
Prof Martin Thrupp's keynote address to the New Zealand Post Primary Teachers Association professional conference, "Secondary Teaching on the Move", Auckland.
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