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Our Beneficiaries are wasted
They are wasted in the sense that we have so many people regularly underutilised and not allowed to fulfil their potential. Not in in the sense popularised by the current National
Read MoreLabour won’t win as ‘National Lite’
Disenfranchised During the Labour leader election campaigns we regularly heard about the ‘800,000 voters who didn’t vote’. That Labour’s job was not to appeal to the disenchanted i
Read MoreWorking For Families is failing
Working for Families (‘WFF’) is failing. It is failing its recipients, their employers, the Government, and the poor who should be receiving it, but aren’t. Don’t get me wrong, WFF
Read MoreMP pay and deeper inequality issues
The Green Party’s announcement of a policy to link MP’s pay to the median income in New Zealand ‘to be a part of the solution to inequality’ has provided reactions that show
Read MoreNot in my back pocket
The neo-liberal culture of greed has become so ingrained in New Zealand society that left of centre politicians fear to suggest policies that would reduce the wealth or income gap
Read MoreAmbulance at the bottom of the cliff
We regularly hear our Government’s policy for poverty and its related consequences as using an ambulance at the bottom of the cliff. I would like to take the analogy a little furth
Read MoreThe policy that dare not speak its name
With apologies to Oscar Wilde, the National Government currently is avoiding a policy that dare not speaks its name, and certainly is considered an offensive world in ‘better circl
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- Oxfam Report: Time to Care – Unpaid and underpaid care work and the global inequality crisis
- Inequality and poverty: A summary of the 2019 Household Incomes in New Zealand report – by Max Rashbrooke
- Press Release: “Fake News” from Auckland City Council CCOs Board Chairs re pay and performance bonuses for top managers
- October 2019 – Newsletter
- ‘The Workshop’ – Report: Talking about Poverty and Welfare Reform: A Guide to Strategies that Work in Aotearoa New Zealand
About us
Income Equality Aotearoa New Zealand Inc is a national volunteer organisation trying to tackle the wealth inequality and the social problems that it causes. We want a fairer and more equal New Zealand, for all.
