Anti-poverty groups to Labour: Election results mean no more excuses
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
20 October 2020
Child Poverty Action Group, ActionStation and Auckland Action Against Poverty are calling on the new government to...
Upcoming financial support needs to be nationwide, ongoing and backdated to start of lockdown
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
12 October 2021
New financial support for low-income families could enhance public health success, slow down inequality and offer relief...
“I don’t use my oven” – Life without a liveable income
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
20 April 2021
Below is a small selection of insights from people receiving benefits in the new report: Income Support in the wake...
Govt yet to fully implement a single key WEAG recommendation three years on: new...
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
08 December 2021
None of the 42 key recommendations of the Welfare Expert Advisory Group (WEAG) have been fully implemented...
All of Northern peninsula (land and sea) protected from GE/GMOs
Source: GE Free New Zealand – Press Release/Statement:
Headline: All of Northern peninsula (land and sea) protected from GE/GMOs
GE-Free Northland
11 August 2020 Media release
All of...
Poorest people get less than 1c per day to protect themselves from impacts of...
Source: Oxfam New Zealand
People living in the poorest countries receive around $3 per year – less than one cent per day – to protect themselves...
Dozens of NGOs urge Jacinda Ardern: Raise welfare by Christmas
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
09 November 2020
Over 50 prominent organisations have joined together to urge the government to raise income support by Christmas,...
Since August, the Government’s response to lockdown hardship has been more piecemeal and inadequate...
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
Since August, the Government’s response to lockdown hardship has been more piecemeal and inadequate than it was last year....
Greenpeace puts Jacinda in a dirty Canterbury river
Source: Greenpeace New Zealand
Hoardings are going up today in one of the country’s dirtiest rivers – to remind the Prime Minister of the promises...
No plan, no budget: Two years on from WEAG, Government continues to drag its...
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
30 April 2021
Two years since government-appointed experts recommended a complete overhaul of our welfare system, children, families, those with...
CPAG and AAAP Call for Extension of Covid Support for NZ’s Most Financially Vulnerable
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
02 September 2020
Incomes are scheduled to be cut by up to $63 a week for many of New Zealand’s...
Sixty percent of NZers think the govt should go further with benefit increases –...
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
01 July 2021
A poll released today shows 60% of people in New Zealand think the Government should increase income...
