Latest news 2022
August
- St John, S. (2022) Poverty is not a partisan issue, Newsroom,5th August 2022
July
- St John, S. ( 2022) Social security purposes and principles are cold comfort for too many NZ Herald 25th July 2022
- St John, S ( 2022) Here is what must happen in child poverty before the end of this year Daily Blog 21st July
- St John, S quoted in Carmel Sepuloni receives review into Working for Families, but some worried focus is not on poverty – NZ Herald 28th July
June
- St John, S (2022) The only trade-off that matters. Newsroom,15th June.
May
- St John, S (2022) Policy Report – The Irish Autoenrolment
RPRC PR 2022-1 in AE-Ireland by TOR Financial Consulting Ltd. It draws on the New Zealand experience with KiwiSaver and its relevance for women. - St John, S. ( 2022) Improving the Child Poverty Reduction Framework 23rd May) CPAG commentary.
- St John, S (2022) The budget will not feed hungry children Daily Blog 23rd May 2022
- St John, S (2022) Little hint of meaningful action Spinoff budget round table, 19th May
- St John, S (2022) interviewed by Susan Edmunds Working for Families needs to do better.What do you want to see in the Budget this year? | Stuff.co.nz 15th May
April
- St John, S. (2022) interviewed by Isaac Davison NZ Herald on Marginal tax rates 22nd April
- St John,S (2022) interviewed by Susan Edmunds Marginal tax rates 4th April
March
- St John, S (2022) Children shouldn’t pay for a broken system
Newsroom 24th March 2022 - St John, S (2022) International Women’s Day, New Zealand is still a long way from gender equality, Newsroom, 8th March 2022
- St John, S (2022) The Purpose and Principles of the Social Security Act, The Daily Blog, 2nd March 2022
February
- Dale, M, St John S (2022) Long term in-home and residential care for New Zealand’s ageing population Long term aged care for New Zealand’s ageing population RPRC PensionBriefing 2022-1, 23 February
- Asher I, St John, S. & G Craw, CPAG Submission: On the Accident Compensation (Maternal Birth Injury and Other Matters) Amendment Bill (Jan 2022) as a PDF (Word Doc), 11th February, 2022
- St John, S (2022) Social insurance , Newsroom, 7th Feb 2022
- Job benefit plan misses mark Waatea News, 10th February, 2022. Concerns new income insurance plans could drive inequality, Radio New Zealand Audio. 2nd February 2021
January
- St John, S (2022) Tackling the Big Issues in 2022? Yeah Right! | The Daily Blog 17th January, 2022
- St John, S ( 2022) Our accidental ACC scheme, New Zealand Herald dialogue page 12th January 2022
Latest news 2021
December
- St John, S (2021) Time to rock the KiwiSaver boat 27th Dec interest.co.nz
November
- St John, S (2021) What could possibly go wrong next? Daily Blog, 27th November 2021
- St John , S & Neuwelt, C (2021) Australia and NZ tax credits for children. A 5-year comparison: July 2018- July 2023 – Part 2 of the Rethinking Income Support for Children series CPAG backgrounder, 18th November 2021.
- St John, S ( 2021) Let them eat cake Daily Blog 15th November 2021
- St John, S ( 2021) Urgent reform of Working for Families needed – not tinkering 8th November 2021
October
- St John, S ( 2021) Interview with Waatea Radio on Working for Families policy changes , interview here, 22nd October 2021
- St John, S ( 2021) Mercer’s pensions index,The Panel with Andrew Hoggard and Mihingarangi Forbes (Part 2) From Radio New Zealand Audio
- St John, S (2021). Time for bold action for children,New Zealand Herald, 21st October 2021
- St John, S(2021) Working for families isn’t working for poor families Daily Blog 20th September
- St John, S (2021) Is appeal to self-interest the answer? St John, (2021) Daily Blog 13th September 2021. Chris Trotter reply:Not Understood: Chris Trotter Replies To Susan St John
- Taxing pensioners’ other income at higher rate ‘could be better way to make super affordable’ Susan Edmunds, Stuff 2nd September
- St John, S ( 2021) What a disgusting state of affairs | The Daily Blog 2nd September, 2021. Chris Trotter reply:Staying focussed, Why Labour still wont help the poor
August
- St John, S ( 2021) New Zealand Superannuation Fund PensionCommentary 2021-2 RPRC, 30th August 2021
- St John, S ( 2021) New Zealand Superannuation as a basic income PensionBriefing 2021-2 RPRC, 27th August 2021
- St John,S (2021) Will the New Zealand Super Fund help pay the costs of the babyboom retirement? interest.co.nz 16th August, 2021
- St John, S (2021) Pressure points in our polices facing up to the ageing population University of Auckland Alumni series Shaping our Futures 10th August 2021 RPRC event summary
July
- St John, S ( 2021) Housing is Labour’s Achilles’ Heel, interest.co.nz, 30th July, 2021
June
- Susan St John and Terry Baucher, The Fair Economic Return: Restoring equity to the social fabric of New Zealand. RPRC working paper 2021-1 30th June.
- NZH, Susan St John: ‘Running a gender equity lens over social policies, childbirth, women’s work’, 27 June, 2021
- Susan St John, S (2021) ACC papers on Women Maori Pacifica and disabled, Radio NZ, Waitea News, 22nd June, 2021
May
- Susan St John. S (2021) Commentary on the 2021 budget The SpinOff, 20th May 2021
- St John, S (2021) Running a gender lens over our sacred social policies Daily Blog, 13th May 2021
- St John, S (2021) Interview with Bernard Hickey on financial priorities Lower debt in, cutting child poverty out: podcast 7th May, 2021
- Neuwellt, C , St John , S (2021) Rethinking Income Support for Children Part 1: Ensuring Adequate Indexation of Working for Families, CPAG backgrounder, 4th May 2021
April
- Susan St John and Terry Baucher (2020) The housing crisis, taxation policy: restoring equity to the social fabric of New Zealand Wednesday, Auckland University of Technology, 28th April 2021.
- St John, S (2020) Oral submission to the Finance and Expenditure Committee: The Budget Policy Statement We are facing a pandemic of poverty that has been intensified by COVID | The Daily Blog Daily Blog 3rd April 2021
March
- St John, S (2020) Submission to the Pensions Commission Ireland on reform of the state pension, RPRC, submissions, March 2021 Irish submission 9th March RPRC NZ final.pdf (auckland.ac.nz)
- St John, S (2020) IRD, Treasury and MSD – Does the tail wag the dog? Daily Blog, 12th March 2021
- St John, S (2021) International women’s day? How are the worst off mothers and their kids doing? Daily Blog: 5th March 2021
February
- St John, S ( 2021) Time to use the Tax hose on the housing market, NZ herald 24th February, 2021
January
- St John, S ( 2021) Any economic fix starts with fixing inequality (paywalled) and audio link here, National Business Review, 7th January 2021, PDF here