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12 May 2010
Far from focusing on the future, CPAG argues this Bill harks back to the past, is discriminatory, and is unlikely to achieve the government's stated aims. Read the CPAG submission here.
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23 Feb 2010
For children, harm comes from several sources, including economic hardship
due to the cost burden of tobacco, smoking-induced sickness and mortality
among parents, and the consequences now or in the future of exposure to
second-hand smoke.
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12 Feb 2010
CPAG has serious concerns about the lack of democracy and the possibility that regional assets will be sold under the government's proposed local government reform for Auckland. See the submission here.
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4 Feb 2010
CPAG agrees that recognising the costs involved in raising children, and assisting single income families, and/or making it easier for one parent to remain at home, are worthwhile aims. However, income splitting is not an appropriate policy response.
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25 Nov 2009
Submission to the Credit Contract and Consumer Finance Act
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5 Nov 2009
Read CPAG's submission to the Auckland City Council's review of gambling policy. CPAG argues that, at a minimum, the Council's "sinking lid" policy on gaming machines should be retained.
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29 Oct 2009
CPAG's submission on the sale of alcohol to the Law Commission urges greater attention be paid to the effects of alcohol on children and young people.
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4 Aug 2009
Child Poverty Action Group urges greater consumer protection to help protect New Zealand's most vulnerable families from shady financial practices.
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4 Mar 2009
The Domestic Energy Users Network says the key question for analysis of the Emissions Trading Scheme is "will policies increase inequality?" This submission promotes more socially just economic development in response to climate change.
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18 Dec 2008
This decision confirms that real and substantive discrimination exists in the IWTC. The decision is from the Human Rights Review Tribunal. Yet the Tribunal has also decided the discrimination is justified. At least 200 000 of our poorest children are affected.
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17 Dec 2008
CPAG say is imperative that the new government give children in low-income families the support they need during what is likely to be a protracted period of slow growth and unemployment. Those needs include decent, secure housing, financial support and equitable access to health services and education.
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11 Nov 2008
The percentage of city dwellers in potential energy poverty has doubled since 2001. The Domestic Energy Users Network ecommends elimination of energy poverty in New Zealand through a combination of crisis payments to the most vulnerable home energy consumers and fairer electricity and gas tariffs, plus a long-term programme of home energy retrofits.
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17 Oct 2008
This CPAG submission provides feedback to government on its draft report on progress towards meeting its obligations under the Convention.
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25 Aug 2008
CPAG’s third submission on this Bill (see also Feb and May 2008) urges the Government to ensure the proposed legislation has a positive impact on low-income and vulnerable families and their children, and protects against unnecessary and avoidable consumer hardship and risk
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15 Aug 2008
CPAG makes suggestions for the amendment of the current bill to more effectively limit alcohol-related harm in our communities.
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4 Jul 2008
For reasons of equity Child Poverty Action Group does not support proposals to introduce income splitting as a means of assisting families with the costs of raising children. With the greatest benefits going to those on the highest incomes CPAG believes income splitting's cost and complexity cannot be justified.
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16 May 2008
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) encourages the Finance and Expenditure committee to consider the impact of this Bill and the associated policies on low income and vulnerable families and their children.
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24 Feb 2008
CPAG presents ways to improve consumer protection in the financial sector - the lack of which must carry a share of the blame for the worsening economic position of children.
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18 Feb 2008
There is now an opportunity to further change the environment in which smoking occurs through banning retail display stands of tobacco. Smoking disproportionately affects the most disadvantaged groups in society.
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4 Feb 2008
CPAG outlines some ways in which tax cuts could actually benefit the poor: There is an urgent need to reform the income tax structure to make it more progressive. Tax reform needs to redistribute the tax burden, rather than reducing the overall tax burden, which is not high by OECD standards.
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