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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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25 Nov 2006
Associate Professor Mike O'Brien told today's Pacific Women's Watch conference that poverty is violent in its effects on children's lives.
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13 Oct 2006
A presentation to the Child and Youth Welfare Advisers Conference by Catherine Rodgers, Assistant Director of Human Rights Proceedings, Office of Human Rights Proceedings
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10 Oct 2006
Susan St John spoke this week in Wellington about CPAG's legal case to the Human Rights Review Tribunal. "Policy must provide for adequate child-related payments to support low family incomes, as an essential part of ensuring that all children have a decent and fair start in life," Dr St John says.
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11 Aug 2006
This paper by Associate-Professor O'Brien looks at the proposed core benefit changes, and their implications for today's "forgotten people." It was presented to a New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services conference, "Poverty in Prosperity".
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26 Jul 2006
Innes Asher outlined the way ahead for action on child poverty in terms of poverty measurement, income measures, health, housing and education, speaking at the Every Chld Counts forum in Wellington.
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24 Jul 2006
Special guest speaker Prof Martin Thrupp is a specialist in the social policy aspects of education from the University of Waikato. This is his powerpoint presentation to AGM 06.
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24 Jul 2006
Special guest speaker Prof Martin Thrupp is a specialist in the social policy aspects of education from the University of Waikato.
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24 Mar 2006
Child health outcomes in New Zealand are poor, due in part to policy neglect, Professor Innes Asher of the University of Auckand's Paediatrics Department told the Hospital Play Association of Aotearoa/NZ
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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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