The Auckland City Missioner says a report on child poverty is timely, and if the recommendations in it were adopted it would have a significant impact. However, she says what is ultimately needed is a change in the way government agencies work. The report, commissioned by the Children’s Commissioner and released by an expert advisory group, Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Social justice’
Young people’s wages often support wider family
Tuesday, December 11th, 2012
Young people’s wages may be supporting wider family household costs, independent teenage living, or study – all of which would be affected if young people earn lower wages. These are the conclusions that social justice agency Caritas has arrived at as a result in-depth interviews with four young people currently living and working in the Read more
British family to be deported because Dad has brain tumour
Tuesday, December 4th, 2012
An Anglican parish in Onewhero, Tuakau, has been seeking support for a British family who have been living in New Zealand for seven years, but face being deported because the father has a brain tumour and cannot work. Immigration NZ acting general manager Bruce Burrows said their application for residence was rejected because Paul Crystal Read more
Reclassifying beneficiaries won’t create jobs say Caritas
Friday, November 30th, 2012
Reclassifying beneficiaries under the new legislation will do nothing to create jobs says Caritas Aotearoa in the sumbission it made to Parliament’s social services committee on Wednesday Research and advocacy co-ordinator Lisa Beech said what the legislation was attempting to do had parallels with the poor houses of Britain in the 19th century. Beech said Read more
Barr says 60% of wage earner are below poverty line
Tuesday, November 13th, 2012
In Fiji, Father Kevin Barr said two thirds of Fiji’s population are living in poverty or close to it. Representing the Peoples Community Network in a seminar titled “The Challenges of Poverty to the Constitution” held at the University of the South Pacific He said 60 per cent of the workers in full-time employment earned wages below Read more
Families only a means to an end
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012
This year’s Australian Catholic Bishops Social Justice Statement focuses on the family. It is put into useful perspective by the publication the Bishops’ Pastoral Research Office September E-News Bulletin headlining the 2011 Census statistic that only 50 per cent of Catholics aged 15 and over are married. The often talked about nexus between marriage, the family, and the Catholic Read more
The gift of family in difficult times — Australian Catholic Bishops
Friday, September 28th, 2012
The family is the first and fundamental school of social living: as a community of love, it finds in self-giving the law that guides it and makes it grow. The self-giving that inspires the love of a husband and a wife for each other is the model and the norm for the self-giving that must be practiced in Read more
New Zealand born Columban priest working with marginalised in Korea
Friday, September 14th, 2012
New Zealand born Columban priest Father Robert Brennan has been in Korea since 1966. He has been working with credit unions, which lend money to those in need at low borrowing costs, as he continues to devote himself to helping families marginalised by the ruthlessness of capitalism. He studied Korean for two years before being Read more