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  • Sep 2024: Post-budget Breakfast - Social Justice Perspective
  • Mar 2024: Post-budget Breakfast - The first one hundred days
  • Sep 2023: Post-budget Breakfast - Fair and Just Society
  • May 2023: Post-budget Breakfast - Child Poverty

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Post-budget Breakfast - Social Justice Perspective
May 2024
For this breakfast hui St Peter’s on Willis Social Justice Group combined with Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG), the Public Health Association New Zealand (PHANZ) Wellington branch, and Otago University Public Health Communications Centre Aotearoa (PHCC).

Open to the public, Budget 2024, The Social Justice Perspective, was hosted by Samoan New Zealand entertainer, Edward Cowley, and featured six special guest speakers outlining their take on the Budget.

The speakers were:
* Auckland University public health and policyacademic, Sir Collin Tukuitonga KNZM; Keynote address on Public Health Perspectives
* Equal Opportunities Commissioner, Acting Race Relations Commissioner and Acting Human Rights Commissioner, Saunoamaali’i Karanina Sumeo; Human Rights – the disabled
* Co-Convenor of the Child Poverty Action Group,Alan Johnson; CPAG perspective
* NZCTU Economist and Director of Policy, CraigRenney; Union Perspective
* Auckland Economist, Shamubeel Eaqub; Economicanalysis
* Wellington writer and intellectual Max Rashbrooke; Commentary/Summary.

The group’s chair, Gail Duncan, said the hui was particularly important at this time. “ It gives us a chance to catch-up with the government’s fast paced legislation on infrastructure, environment, law and order, socia linvestment and taxation.”

Post-budget Breakfast - The first hundred days
Mar 2024
The new coalition government’s progress at delivering a fair and just society was the subject of a post-election hui coordinated by Peter’s on Willis Social Justice Group, held in Wellington on the eve of the government’s first 100 days in office, on 7 March.
Topics covered were:
* Will redefining the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi be for the betterment of society? Maria Bargh, Professor Politics and Māori Studies at Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington
* Human rights and interaction with international and UN agencies. Saunoamaali’i Karanina Sumeo, the Equal Employment Opportunities Commissioner, Acting Race Relations Commissioner and Acting Chief Commissioner at the New Zealand Human Rights Commission.
* Social & economic impact of the Coalition government provisions for infrastructure and industry’. Marnie Prickett, Research fellow at Otago University Department of Public Health
* Law and order or discrimination and punishment? Speaker Eugene Ryder, Social worker, student of law Victoria University of Wellington
Post-budget Breakfast - Fair and Just Society
Sep 2023
The hui was prepared by the St Peter’s on Willis SocialJustice Group to enhance public understanding of the broader issues at stakefor society as the 2023 election approached. To provide a framework to allow voters to consider policies that havebroad social ramifications. To empower discussion.
Post-budget Breakfast - Child Poverty
May 2023

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