Welfare Headlines

NZ Council of Christian Social Services Backs Living Wage

Press Release – NZ Council of Christian Social Services

The New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services (NZCCSS) fully supports the Living Wage Campaign. The Council encourages all social services organisations to work towards becoming living wage employers. NZCCSS recognises progress towards this … Read more »

Women Leading In Real Estate Sales Statistics

Press Release – Barfoot and Thompson

Female agents are leading the way in Aucklands residential sales statistics according to recent performance results from the Citys premier real estate company, Barfoot & Thompson. Read more »

Otago Students Take On Child Poverty

Press Release – Choose Kids

A group of University of Otago students has banded together this year to try and address some of the issues of child poverty and encourage discussions in the public and political arenas. Read more »

CPAG Backs Salvation Army Pasifika Report

Press Release – Child Poverty Action Group

CPAG has come out in full support of the Salvation Army’s report on the state of New Zealand’s Pacific community. Read more »

All Abortions are Violence Against Women

Press Release – Right To Life

It is disappointing that ALRANZ is using this tragic Gosnell case to promote the decriminalisation of abortion in New Zealand on the grounds that our abortion laws are restrictive. This is absurd as ninety-nine per cent of women who request an abortion … Read more »

Muriel Newman: Budget 2013

Column – NZ Centre For Political Research

Whether we like it or not politics and politicians have an important influence on our lives. Not only do they shape the social agenda and impose regulations upon us, they control the purse strings to the state sector which represents more than a third … Read more »

Launch for Kiwi Ranger programme at Tiritiri Matangi

Press Release – Department of Conservation

A family-focused conservation education programme will be launched at Tiritiri Matangi over Queens Birthday Weekend for the first time giving Auckland kids the chance to be accredited as Kiwi Rangers. Read more »

Lowest paid need living wage most of all

Press Release – Service And Food Workers Union

The Service and Food Workers Union Ng Ringa Tota has congratulated Hamilton City Councillors who have voted today to bring in a living wage over the next two years, but asked them to include the lowest paid in their workforce. Read more »

First Dedicated Māori Caucus Hui for Community Law Centres

Press Release – Community Law Centres

From May 23 to 24 2013, the Mori Caucus of Community Law will meet at whata Marae, Rotorua, for its first dedicated hui in the history of Community Law. Read more »

Coping with Redundancy

Press Release – NZ Federation of Family Budgeting Services

New Zealanders are learning the hard way how to cope with redundancy. It seems that every week another factory is closing down, another business disappears, and workers are left to manage as best they can. Read more »

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