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Sustainable Development

Call to focus election on child poverty in New Zealand

by The Daily Eye Team December 20 2013, 7:50 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 21 secs

Children’s Commissioner, Dr Russell Wills, wants motorists, the well-off and the elderly to take less from taxpayers so that more public funding can go into tackling child poverty.

Dr Wills is raising the stakes in his personal crusade for poor children in an opinion article in today’s Herald, saying child poverty should be a key issue in next year’s election. Read more here