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31 Dec 2006
The Office of Human Rights Proceedings has filed this second amended Statement of Claim on CPAG's behalf, with the Human Rights Review Tribunal.
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1 Dec 2006
CPAG argues that adequate consumer protection in the financial sector must help lift the disproportionate tax burden which has fallen on lower-income families in the past two decades.
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13 Oct 2006
This submission follows the government's announcement of a $67 million campaign to fight obesity. We suggest this will amount to little more than a $67 million donation to the advertising industry, and its impact on our burgeoning obesity rates will be minimal. The idea that it will change peoples attitudes and hence their health outcomes is, we believe, misguided, but worse, it avoids the bigger issues that obesity represents.
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4 Oct 2006
CPAG urges the Ministry of Social Development and Housing New Zealand to consider the broader policy context, including income adequacy and the preferential tax treatment of housing investment, as a vital part of future efforts to provide healthy, stable housing for New Zealand's low-income families.
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30 Sep 2006
CPAG lawyers have amended our statement of claim to the Human Rights Review Tribunal, alleging discrimination in the In Work Payment and its predecessor the Child Tax Credit. CPAG is now bringing the case on behalf of people suffering exclusion from the policy provisions.
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8 Sep 2006
CPAG argues in support of a Bill extending the time for which babies may remain with their imprisoned mothers from 6 months to two years under controlled conditions, in line with international norms.
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18 May 2006
High Court Justice Ronald Young's decision dismissed Crown Law's appeal against CPAG's victory on preliminary matters in the group's case alleging the In-Work Payment and Child Tax Credit discriminate against children.
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12 May 2006
Donna Wynd's submission to the Ministry of Transport urges councils to dramatically improve public and alternative transport options before low-income families are priced out of private car transport.
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10 May 2006
The Office of Human Rights Proceedings submitted this Memorandum as to Jurisdiction to the High Court during Crown Law's appeal on preliminary issues in the IWP/CTC case, in May 2006.
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6 Mar 2006
CPAG submissions for the High Court Appeal
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6 Mar 2006
CPAG has released its key recommendations to government for 2006, ahead of Budget 06.
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28 Feb 2006
CPAG argues in this submission that Section 59 of the Crimes Act currently provides an unacceptable defence for parents who assault their children.
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28 Feb 2006
CPAG highlighted the contribution which food insecurity is making to the 'obesity epidemic' among children dependent on our lowest incomes.
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