Events
Post Budget 2023 Breakfast Child Poverty Event
Friday May 19th, 2023
Held at St Peter’s on Willis, 211 Willis Street, Te Aro, Wellington (Corner Willis and Ghuznee Streets). Doors opened at 6:30am to the public for a light breakfast and drinks.
Overview
- 7:20am: Brief introductions from CPAG (Lisa Woods), PHANZ (Ramil Adhikari), Social Justice Group (Gail Duncan) and MC Josie Pagani
- 7:35am: MC Josie Pagani, Karakia whakatuwhera Jean Malcolm
- Speakers commence
- 8:55am: Panel/questions and wrap up
- 9:05am: Karakia whakamutunga Stephen King
- 9:10am: Event finished/ live streaming finishes
Full event video
Speaker BIOs and individual videos
Hon Priyanka Radhakrishnan
Member of Parliament for Maungakiekie, Labour Party. Minister Community and Voluntary Sector, Diversity, Inclusion & Ethnic Communities, Disability Issues, Social Development & Employment, Workplace Relations & Safety.
Josie Pagani
Josie Pagani writes a weekly column in Stuff and The Post. She works in aid, politics, trade and media, and is involved in progressive think tanks in the UK and Europe. For the last six years was the Executive Director of the Council for International Development (CID). She has worked as a political advisor to governments, to Prime Ministers and ministers, and has high-level experience in the aid and development sector at the OECD in Paris, and before that, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Murray Edridge
Murray Edridge is the 12th City Missioner in the 119-year history of the Wellington City Mission and has been in that role since May 2018. Coming from a commercial background as a Chartered Accountant, his initial professional career was in a variety of industries including energy distribution and retail, media and education. He was the Chief Executive of Barnardos New Zealand for 9 years and then worked in central Government as a Deputy Chief Executive in the Ministry of Social Development for 6 years. Immediately prior to joining the Wellington City Mission, Murray was the inaugural Chief Executive of Genesis Youth Trust; an organisation operating under a Social Impact Bond and working with youth offenders and their whanau in a number of communities in South and East Auckland.
Jonathan Boston
ONZM, is Emeritus Professor of Public Policy in the School of Government at Victoria University of Wellington. He has served at various times as the Director of the Institute of Policy Studies and the Director of the Institute for Governance and Policy Studies at Victoria University. He co-chaired the Expert Advisory Group on Solutions to Child Poverty in 2012-13 for the Children's Commissioner which, among other things, recommended a Child Poverty Reduction Act.
Huhana Lyndon
Huhana Lyndon is Raukura (CEO) of Ngātiwai Trust Board the Mandated Iwi Authority for 14 Ngātiwai marae, with 8000 + registered beneficiaries. As a past Post Budget Breakfast Speaker – Huhana brings to our programme a strong Te Iwi Māori perspective on social justice and taiao underpinned by Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Huhana is a community mobiliser locally and regionally supporting covid19, emergency responses at an iwi and hapū level, she is an strong advocate for rangatiratanga and has a diverse career portfolio in health, education, primary industries and serving te iwi Māori.
Charles Waldegrave
Charles Waldegrave is a Coordinator of the Family Centre Social Policy Research Unit based in Lower Hutt and works a day a week as a joint-Vicar in this church here at St Peters. He has jointly led the New Zealand Poverty Measurement Project which developed the measures of poverty applied in the annual Ministry of Social Development’s ‘Household Incomes in New Zealand’ series and the Child Poverty Reduction Act 2018. He led the Housing Workstream within the Welfare Expert Advisory Group that reported to Cabinet in 2019, and leads the research team that sets the annual level of the New Zealand ‘Living Wage’.
Louise Delany
Louise Delany is a semi-retired senior lecturer in the Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington. She has worked in the health sector for much of her working life, mostly at the Ministry of Health. She has also worked for the Law Commission, the Land Transport Safety Agency, and the Ministry of Justice. Louise is a past chair of the Public Health Association of New Zealand. She is co-founder, recent chair, and now the Secretary, of Tax Justice Aotearoa New Zealand. Her book in 2021 was nothing to do with tax: Covid and the Law in Aotearoa.
Dr Lisa Te Morenga
Dr Lisa Te Morenga is Co-Chair of Health Coalition Aotearoa (HCA) - an alliance of NGOs, health organisations and individuals and academics with a collective vision of health and equity in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Unhealthy diets, high BMI, tobacco, and alcohol contribute about one-third of the overall preventable health loss in New Zealand. As a collective, HCA strives to prevent harm from unhealthy commodities and to strengthen the foundations of public health. In her day job is an Associate Professor of Nutrition and Maori Health in the Research Centre for Hauora and Health at Massey University, Wellington.
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