Pacific Trafficking in Persons Forum

Social Policy &
Parliamentary Unit

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  Inconvenient Truths
  Truths exposed at the Pacific Trafficking in Persons Forum.

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  December 2011 edition
  We would like to wish everyone an amazing 2012!

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  Extraordinary Change
  The Inconvenient Truths’ Pacific Trafficking in Persons Forum.

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  Public Sphere November 2011 edition
  Why it's important to vote.

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  National’s Welfare Policy
  A discussion of the main points of this policy.

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  A Redemptive Time: Does it really matter how we vote?

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  Unintended Consequences
  The complexities behind human trafficking.

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  Does inequality matter?
  Re-capture the dream of an egalitarian NZ.

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  The unfinished alcohol debate
  We could make positive changes to alcohol laws.

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  The kids are alright
  Not all our kids are binge-drinking boy racers.

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  The unfolding housing crisis
  It’s the Kiwi dream we can no longer afford.

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  Behind bars
  Is the justice system creating a just society?

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  Can we afford our welfare system?
  We’re living on borrowed time.

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  October 2011 edition
  Renting lives for commercial gain.

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  Unprincipled Misery
  How does migration become human trafficking?

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  Submission to Wiri Prison Inquiry
  Social impacts of the Wiri prison.

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  Mangere Survey Report
  Overcrowding in South Auckland.

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  Repossession Law Review
  The review of credit repossession law.

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  September 2011 edition
  The imbalance between lenders and borrowers.

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  Stalled
  A State of the Nation report from The Salvation Army for 2011.

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  August 2011 edition
  This election is a chance for political parties to listen to the people.

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  The Bigness of Smallness
  Explores whether bigger is always best.

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  The Psychology of Economics
  Dealing with loan sharks.

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  Effective Policy to Protect Children
  A paper given by Major Campbell Roberts.

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  Psychoactive Drugs
  The Salvation Army's stand on psychoactive drugs.

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  Bail in New Zealand
  Reviewing aspects of the bail system in New Zealand.

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  The Winter of our Content
  Can we have confidence in economists?

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  The Chaos Matters
  Chaos and creativity could re-ignite the first flame.

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  Homelessness and the Housing Continuum
  The housing challenges facing New Zealanders.

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  Public Private Partnerships
  The new silver bullet for affordable housing?

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  The Good Samaritan Scandal
  ‘Getting off a donkey’ changed what we knew.

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  Choice or Chance
  Public spending after the Christchurch earthquake.

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  Submission on Alcohol Reform Bill
  To the Justice and Electoral Committee.

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  Monopoly Games in the Nursery
  Inequalities and early childhood education.

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  Ancient Questions & Welfare Futures
  The present welfare debate.

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  Submission to Welfare Working Group
  Reducing long-term dependency on welfare.

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  Cost of Everything, Value of Nothing
  Presentation to Early Education Federation.

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  Contribution of housing policies to social polarisation
  Housing in Auckland.

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  Live Simply
  Unwrap consumerism so others may simply live.

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  Angelic Exchanges
  Speaking of God in the public sphere.

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  A Contest of Spirits
  How The Salvation Army sees alcohol.

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  Under the Influence
  Reshaping New Zealand's drinking culture.

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  Apolitical Politicking
  In but not of the world of politics.

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  Distant and Disposable
  Revalue our shared humanity.

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  A Road to Recovery
  A State of the Nation report from The Salvation Army for 2010.

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  Na To Rourou, Na Taku Rourou
  Economics of a Shared Future.

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  Alcohol in our Lives
  Submission to the Law Commission.

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  Pacific Trafficking in Persons Forum
  2009 forum on people trafficking

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  Excising Excess
  Using alcohol taxes to reduce harmful drinking.

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  The Rainbow of Entitlement
  Consumerism and what we feel is rightly ours.

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  Hearing Sa’aq
  The practice of hopeful, liberating speech.

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  Economics of Elephants
  Notes on a practical theology of enough.

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  Into Troubled Waters
  A State of the Nation report from The Salvation Army for 2009.

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  A New Journey
  Issues and reflections for the 2008 parliamentary elections.

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  Housing Update 2008
  Four aspects of NZ’s housing markets.

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  What Does it Profit Us?
  A State of the Nation report for 2008.

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  Rebuilding the Kiwi Dream
  The broader role that social housing may fulfil.

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  Forgotten People
  Men who use social services who live outside of a family household.

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  Beyond the Holding Tank
  Rehabilitative and restorative prison policy.

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  A Home I Could Own
  The housing aspirations of low-income clients of The Salvation Army.

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  Housing to Homes
  Strategies to assist low and modest income NZ households.

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  A New Zealand that Demands Attention
  Social issues as seen by our social services.