Wellington Post Budget Breakfast

Winners and losers - find out how Budget 2016 affects the public health and social wellbeing of New Zealanders, especially children and young people living in poverty

Each year CPAG provides child-focused analyses and commentary of the year's budget. In Wellington, CPAG and the Public Health Association branch arrange a breakfast meeting to provide an accessible and affordable avenue for the community to come together and hear about how the budget affects children and young people, especially our most vulnerable who live in poverty.

CPAG and the Wellington PHA are pleased to again work together running this event.
Breakfast served at 7.15am, speakers begin at 7.30

The venue has now reached capacity due to an overwhelming response to the invite and registrations are now closed.

We wish to thank you for your support and interest in the event. Please see cpag.org.nz for the budget analysis released on Friday 27th May. 

Guest Speakers

Max Rashbrooke: Max is an author, academic and journalist. He is a research associate for the institute for governance and policy studies. His recent work has focused on income and wealth inequality. He is the editor of  Inequality: A New Zealand Crisis, published in 2013, as well as writing The Inequality Debate: an Introduction, a short guide to income inequality in New Zealand. 

Dr Jess Berentson Shaw: Jess is a researcher and science communicator working at The Morgan Foundation. Her recent research has focussed on innovative solutions to improving outcomes for children in poverty (due to be published this year). Jess refers to herself as an 'evidence scientist and agitator' as she has spent most of her post PhD research career advocating for science based public policy.

Morgan Godfery: Morgan is a writer and trade unionist based in Wellington. He is the editor of The Interregnum, published by Bridget Williams Books in 2016, and his writing regularly appears in the Guardian, Fairfax and Overland Literary Journal. He also regularly appears on radio and television as a political commentator and has authored several academic chapters. He graduated in law from Victoria University in 2015

Plus guest commentators

This event is part of CPAG's Nationwide Budget Breakfast Series being held in seven main centres - Whangarei, Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, Nelson, Dunedin and Christchurch.

CPAG also intends to provide a comprehensive budget review shortly after the budget is released.  Visit www.cpag.org.nz to get your copy on Friday 27 May.