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December

• St John, S (2020)  Would Total Remuneration improve KiwiSaver fairness? RPRC PensionBriefing 2020-1
• St John, S (2020) Susan St John makes the case for taxing a deemed rate of return on excessive real estate holdings (after a family home exemption), to redirect scarce housing resources to where they are needed most Published at Interest.co.nz. 26th December 2020
• St John, S (2020) Susan St John looks into the ‘housing elephant rampaging across New Zealand society’ and assesses potential solutions, Published at Interest.co.nz. 7th December 2020

November

• St John, S ( 2020)  30 years of neoliberalism has failed the poor – so why is Labour continuing it? Daily Blog 23rd November
• St John,S. (2020) Bridging the poverty gap: Why all poor kids need Working For Families support, Spinoff, 18th November 2020
• St John,S. ( 2020) Some fairness for short-changed pensioners – but it was a farcical process to get there, Business Stuff, 10th November.
• St John, S (2020) The bureaucratic blocks to welfare reform, Newsroom 5th November
• St John, S quoted in Jacinda Ardern must use her mandate to tackle child poverty in New Zealand The Guardian, 5th November 2020
• RNZ interview, The Detail on Rethinking ACC in the 21st century  (Andrew Dickson, Sir Geoff Palmer, Susan St John, November 2,2020) and the RNZ article Time for a Royal Commission into Accident Compensation  , 2nd November, 2020

October

• St John, S (2020) A gender lens: Pensions Policies New Zealand, Ireland and Australia  IAPF (Irish pensions Savers) conference, online Ireland 19th October.
• St John quoted in Rob Stock, Stuff  Gender blind KiwiSaver needs to become fairer to women.  Stuff 18th October
• Dale and St John (2020) presenting Retirement issues for women in a post-covid world,  Insurance Ireland, zoom conference, 7he October
• St John, S (2020)., Time to Act is now : taxation of housing as an increase to the income tax base  Daily Blog, 19th October
• St John S quoted in Report card: Jacinda Ardern’s government graded on the past three years The Guardian 12th October 2020
• Panel discussion chaired by Jack Tame:  Rob Everett (Chief Executive, Financial Markets Authority), Jane Wrightson (Retirement Commissioner, Commission for Financial Capability), Susan St John (Director, University of Auckland, Retirement Policy and Research Centre), Will Burkitt (Mercer, Retirement Innovation Leader). Financial Services Council annual conference panel discussion:  Is retirement dead?
• Dig Social policy discussion panel, chaired by Jeremy Rose.  Benefits panel   Susan St John , Serenah Nicholson and Donna Maria Lawson, 7th October.

September

• Dale, MC and St John, s ( 2020) Women and Retirement in a post COVID-19 world   Report  prepared for TOR consulting, September 2020
• St John ,S ( 2020) What no benefit increases?  Daily Blog 29th September 2020
• St John and Dale ( 2020) RPRC Select Committee Submission on the New Zealand Superannuation and Retirement Income (Fair Residency) Amendment Bill, September 22st 2020
• St John, S. ( 2020) Reflections on the Woodhouse Legacy for the 21st Century, 51/2 VUWLR p 293-312

August

• St John, S. ( 2020) Vote ACT for a shattered economy  Daily Blog, 3rd August, 2020 July

July

• St John, S (2020) Economics Solutions. Alternative Aotearoa Piptea Marae Wellington , 25th July 2020 Video link here and edited transcript here
• St John, S ( 2020)  An analysis of Act policies , Daily Blog 14th July
• Interview On the Panel with Wallace Chapman,  Radio NZ – National, Wellington , 13th July ​
• St John, S ( 2020)  Please save  KiwiSaver  from the axe  Daily Blog 2nd July
  St John, S ( 2020) When will Labour get it right for the worst-off children?​ 1st July

June

• Neuwled-kearns, C and St John S, 2020 Family tax credits: Do children get the support in New Zealand that they would get in Australia? CPAG backgrounder June 2020.
• St John, S and Dale C ( 2020)  Don’t drop the ball on this one Jacinda Newsroom 5th June 2020​

May

• St John, S ( 2020)  Child Poverty was once at the heart of this government, Daily Blog 18th May
• 2020 CPAG budget analysis with Bryan Bruce : and the Q&A is available here: 15th May 2020​
• St John, S and C M Dale ( 2020) Why this budget matters for intergenerational  fairness  Newsroom,  14th May 2020
• St John, S ( 2020) The welfare system is dangerous to our COVID-19 future, Daily Blog 14th May​
• St John, S and J Letif, (2020)  Pre budget chat with CPAG,  published facebook 8th May 2020

April

• St John, S ( 2020), Newsroom, Time to change this abhorrently wasteful policy 23rd  April
• St John, S ( 2020) Universal basic income: be careful what you wish for, Newsroom, 15th  April
• St John, S ( 2020) Let’s get the policies right this time  Newsroom, 2 April, 2020

March

• St John, S ( 2020) Covid-19: A Catch-22 for our most vulnerable  Newsroom, 30th March
• St John, S ( 2020)  ‘Time to rethink everything especially super policy’. The DailyBlog, 23 March 2020
• St John, S ( 2020)  ‘Covid-19 economic rescue package: The experts weigh in’. The Spinoff, 17 March 2020,

February

• Dale, MC & St John, S (2020)  The Kiwis falling through the KiwiSaver cracks Newsroom 28 February
• St John, S ( 2020) The New Zealand Super Fund’s magical thinking Newsroom Pro 28th February 020
• St John, S  A briefing on the  reform of the in Work Tax Credit, Child Poverty Action Group, 19th February  2020
• St John, S and Dale ,M (2020)　A close look at the superannuation problem Newsroom 19th February
• St John, S (2020) Petty, intrusive, destructive and just plain wrong,   Daily Blog, 13th February 2020
• St John et al (2020)  Budget Policy Statement CPAG Oral submission to the Finance Expenditure Select committee, 7th February
• St John reported in Stuff, 2nd Feb,   How employers are freezing the over 50s out of the job market and New Zealand’s pension is one of the world’s most generous – will you be getting it at 65?

January

• St John, S Radio New Zealand,  Radio NZ Checkpoint  also  Newsroom The Retirement Income review Future retirees face more financial hardship, research suggests 29th January
• St John in New Zealand Herald |Kathryn’s case was meant to change the system  23rd January
• St John, S  Expose Working for Families myths   Newsroom, 23rd January, 2020
• ST John  S  Non Qualifying spouse interview Susan Edmunds   Stuff 20th Jan
• St John S reported in Where the Government should spend the pot of gold, Stuff, 19th January, 2020
•  St John, S. CPAG joins call from budget advisors for Govt to increase benefits urgently Press Release 9th January 2020​

December

• St John, S and Cotterell, G (2019) National’s family incomes support policy:  A new paradigm shift or more of the same? Themed issue: National’s social policy legacy. N e w Z e a l a n d  S o c i o l o g y 3 4 ( 2 ).  ​
• St John, S ( 2019) The interment of the WEAG report is complete Daily Blog, 24th December 2019
• t John, S ( 2019) Pension for children is no panacea,  Newsroom, 20th December, 2019
• St John, S (2019)  Universality and a pension for children Radio NZ, 18th December Jesse Muligan show,
• St John, J (2019) oral submission to the Social Services and Community select committee, Modernisation and simplification of NZ Superannuation 16th December, 2019
• St John , S  Press release on the Budget Policy Staement  13th December
• St John, S ( 2019) )Intergenerational impacts: The  sustainability of New Zealand Superannuation23rd Annual Colloquium of Superannuation Researchers, CEPAR and Risk and Actuarial Studies in the UNSW Business School, Sydney 2-3 December 2019

November

• St John, S ( 2019) The Earned Income Tax Credit, CPAG Summit; Whereto from here, the Whakamana Tangata Report, Otago medical school, Wellington 18th November 2019
• St John, S (2019) The real problem in Winston’s case   Newsroom, 13 h November 2019
• St John, S (2019) ​Winston’s trial this week should be a wake-up call for-everyone  Daily Blog 4th November 2019

October

• St John, S (2019) The 2019 Sir Owen Woodhouse Memorial Lecture, Wellington law school, 16th October, Auckland Law school 22nd October, 2019.
  Video of lecture

September

• St  John, S., & Dale, M. C. (2019). Intergenerational impacts: the sustainability of New Zealand Superannuation Retirement Policy and Research Centre, prepared for the Commission for Financial Capability.
• St John, S., & M.C, Dale . (2019). Decumulation: Time to act. Auckland: Retirement Policy and Research Centre, University of Auckland, prepared for the Commission for Financial Capability

July

• St John, S (2019) Poverty not an earthquake but still a crisis  Newsroom, 9th July

June

• St John, S (2019)  Retirement policies falling under the radar screen  Daily Blog, 30th June
• St John, S (2019) Housing is a mess. Stop messing with solutions Daily Blog , 21st  June
• St John, S (2019) Break open the champagne ,  Daily Blog 5th June,    Wellbeing budget quietly rights a wrong, Newsroom 9th June
• St John, S ( 2019) The wider picture, Senior courts conference: Stability and instability Christchurch, 8th June 2019
• St john, S and Dale, C Unfair superannuation partner rule finally dropped,  RPRC, Scoop, 4th June 2019
• St John, S &  J. MCallister, The cash benefit fuelling NZ’s housing crisisNewsroom30th May 2019 and StuffBad design of the Accommodation Supplement fuels NZ’s housing crisis  Stuff, 3rd June, 2019
• CPAG, Press release 2019, Budget provides relief but nothing transformational for children in poverty – Child poverty Action Group  , 2nd June 2019

May

• St John, S and J Cartwright (2019) ‘Get our children out of poverty’ Tui Motu Issue 2356, 2019 May
• St John, S ( 2019) Poverty and Justice ,Transformational Justice conferences 31st May and 11th June, Wellington
• St John, S (2019) Creditable but not good enough:  Wellbeing Budget 2019: The great Spinoff hot-take roundtable, May 30th 2019
• St John, S ( 2019)   Radio NZ, morning report  and 1ZB, the poverty reduction targets  23rd May [BROKEN LINK]
• St John, S ( 2019)  Media must interrogate menacing privacy breaches   Newsroom 21st May 2019
• St John, S with J MacCalister and A  Johnson,  The Accommodation supplement: the wrong tool to fix the house. Monograph   Child Poverty Action Group , 20th May 2019
• St John, S ( 2019) On welfare: What I wish Sepuloni had said Newsroom 15th May 2019
• St John, S ( 2019) I am not a conspiracy theorist but…. Daily Blog 6th May also see Welfare system report: Advocates hope for more funding , Radio NZ, 26th April 2019  and Press release:  CPAG welcomes WEAG recommendations to ensure dignity for all,  3rd May

April

• St John, S (2019) Decumulation, Session on KiwiSaver, RPRC summit.   The 2019 Retirement Income review and You, 26th April 2019 Auckland Business school.  Also see, Has NZ missed the boat, Good Returns, and NZ missed the boat, not yet, Good Returns.
• St John, S ( 2019 ) Paying too much to keep us warm?, Daily Blog 15th April 2019
• St John, S (2019) Grasping the chance to do it better. Daily Blog 21st April and St John, S (2019) CGT is dead – time to act on alternatives, Newsroom, 30th April
• CPAG, St John, S (2019) New data on benefit sanctions show fairer treatment of those in need, April 2019 St John, S (2019 ) Call for ‘significant’ benefit increases after jump in kids living in poor households, ZB Kate Hawkesby, 3rd April, 2019

March

• St John, S (2019) Is this the best we can do? Critically examining the findings of the Tax Working Group. Panel discussion TOP, 11th March Grey Lynn RSA.   See written version Of course, the left wants a capital gains tax… The Daily Blog  and CGT is dead – time to act on alternatives, Newsroom 26th April
• Susan St John says the minority report from the Tax Working Group should be taken seriously if the desire is to reduce inequality and improve housing affordability  Interest.co.nz, 28th March

January

• St John, S (2019) A New Zealand academic has renewed her call for government intervention to fix a “serious hole” in the country’s retirement income policies. Good returns, 11th January 2019.

December

• St John, S (2018) Grading the government’s first year for children in poverty Spinoff Dec 30th 2018.
• St John, S (2018) Will the Tax Working Group actually address housing inequality? Daily Blog 4th December 2018

November

• St John,S (2018) Tax and inequality a commentary. Presentation to Tax Working Group Symposium Auckland 27th November, Wellington 28th November
• St John, S (2018) The Listener is manipulating NZers over retirement Daily Blog 9th November 2018
• St John, S (2018) Time for KiwiSaver default providers to smarten up? Daily Blog 2nd November 2018

October

• St John (2018) Comments on Chpt7: Retirement savings. Response to the Tax Working Group interim report October 15th 2018
• St John, S and Johnson, A (2018) Feedback on the Tax Working Group’s Interim report 30th October 2018
• St John, S (2018) Feedback on the ‘strawman’ proposal for Irish pension reform from New Zealand experience, 3st October 2018. Prepared for Insurance Ireland and TOR Financial Consulting for Consultations by the Department of Finance and Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
• St John (2018) : Importance of Working for Families recognised, but problems not addressed Press release on Tax Working Group Interim Report and Commentary on interim TWG report CPAG, October 2018
• RPRC (2018) Support for bill proposing longer residency to access NZ Superannuation. The University of Auckland’s Retirement Policy and Research Centre (RPRC) welcomes the recent bill proposing that residency requirements increase from 10 years to 20 years. 2th October 2018
• RPRC (2018) KiwiSaver default provider arrangements – important issues raised from the Independent Advisors 2018. The major concern is that new KiwiSaver members who do not make their own decisions are put into the default fund of one of nine selected default providers. (17 July 2018).
• St John,S (2018) Dobbing in is a frightful blot on the face of a failed welfare system Daily Blog, October 1, 2018

September

• St John, S (2018) The Child Poverty Action Group rethinking welfare in the 21st century Opening speech to CPAG Summit, University of Otago Wellington, 12th September 2018.
• St John, S. (2018) Divestment and Decumulation – Planning for Post-Retirement Panel Financials Services Council Conference Shaping Futures, Pullman 6-7th September 2018 .

August

• St John S (2018) Reply to Eric Crampton Working for families is a payment for children The daily Blog 2nd August 2018
• St John S (2018) Reply to Jane Clifton, Listener Myths that hurt children Daily Blog 27th August, 2018 Chris Trotter’s reply Working For Families: Keeping The Wheels Of Capitalism Turning Daily Blog 28th August

July

• St John, S (2018) Working for Families under attack, Blog St John, 25th July 2018
• St John, S (2018) Working for Families perversely misunderstood, Newsroom 16th July 2018
• St John S.& So, Y (2018) How effective are 2018 policy settings for the worst-off children? Working paper 18/2, Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
• St John S (2018) Policy changes to a festering sore are sadly in the far distance: Daily Blog 11th July 2018

June

• St John, S (2018) Universal Super – No steps forward. Two steps back? Daily Blog 16th June
• St John, S (2018) We can help solve child poverty – here is one crucial way how, Daily Blog, 5th June
• St John, S (2018) A-new-way-to-fix-our-housing-bubble, Newsroom, 13th June

May

• St John, S (2018) CPAG and PSA Budget breakfast presentation “Does this budget turn the tide?” The boatshed, Wellington, 17th May, 2018, and Daily Blog, 22nd May
• St John, S (2018) CPAG presentation “A budget analysis for children : Does this budget turn the tide?” Whangarei, 23rd May, 2018
• St John, S and So, Y (2018) Will children be given the help they need? CPAG background paper, 10th May 2018

April

• Johnson, A, and St John S (2018) Submission to the Tax Working Group, 30th April
• St John, S (2018) Landlords, save your crocodile tears Newsroom 19th April 2018
• St John, S (2018) The fiscal stranglehold Daily Blog, 19th April, 2018
• See also St John. S Labour/Green Economics – these fiscal rules aren’t the beginning of the end, Daily Blog, 20th March, 2017
• St John, S 2018, The huge white elephant landlord in the tax living room, Daily blog 3 April.

March

• St John, S (2018) It needs to be more than a BBQ Jacinda, Daily Blog 13th March
• St John, S ( 2018) Progressive universalisation of Working for Families A March background paper prepared for Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
• St John, S (2018) Submission on the Child Poverty Reduction Bill. prepared with others for Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG), March.

February

• St John, S (2018) BFM interview on the Salvation Army report, 15th February 2018
• St John, S (2018) National digs itself into child poverty hole, Newsroom 19th February, and Can National stop digging please? Daily Blog February 2018

January

• St John, S (2018) Submission on the 2018 Budget Policy Statement, and Oral submission to the Select Committee on Finance and Expenditure Committee, 27th January 2018.
• St John, S (2018) Labour’s policy rewards rich elderly, Newsroom. 24th January, 2018
• St John,S and G. Cotterell,(2018) Our social security safety net has unravelled, New Zealand Herald 22nd January 2018
• St John, S. ( 2018) Treasury mistakes with child poverty figures 19th January 2018
• St John, S (2018) Use of Nudge theory: The Winter Energy Payment Daily Blog 17th January 2018

December

• St John, S (2017) am Show, The families package, 7am 15th December, 2017
• St John, S. with Cotterell, G., Dale C., and So, Y. Further fraying of the welfare safety net, CPAG, Launch December 18th 2017.
• St John, S ( 2017) Some personal reflections Symposium Fifty years from the Woodhouse Report. A celebration and assessment of ACC, Policy Observatory, AUT, 11th December 2017
• St John, S (2017) panel discussant- Interpreting the figures: Child Poverty Monitor Launch, Auckland City mission, 7th December, 2017
• St John, S (2017). Woodhouse at 50, Safeguard Magazine, November/December issue 166

November

• St John (2017) Critic and conscience seminar, Old Government House, 22nd November 2917
• St John, S (2017) Getting welfare right for the 21st century St Johns Rotary, Remuera golf course, November 2nd 2017
• St John, S (2017) The role of  Business in enhancing  family life, Kerridge partners Leadership conference, Mantels Viaduct, 3rd November,

October

• St John, S (2017) The David Wakim Memorial lecture, Columbus centre Ponsonby 5th Oct 2017
• Media interview, Loans are income claim by MSD , High Court Newshub, 27th October, 2017
• St John (2017)Tax and familiy assistance in Progressive thinking on Tax. Eds R.Thomas and K.Windelov, PSA October 2017

September

• St John, S (2017) Housing is the critical issue for the election Daily Blog 19th September 2017
• St John S & H Bull (2017) CPAG submission on The Making Tax Simpler Consultative document Inland Revenue, September 15th 2017
• St John, S (2017) Social investment: target efficiency and incentives. Beyond Social Investment, RPRC and CARE and CPAG conference 8th September 2017, University of Auckland
• St John, S (2017) Time to get rid of married/single distinctions Daily Blog 6th September 2017
• St John, s (2017) The murky illogical world of life on a benefit Newsroom, 1 September 2017

August

• St John, S (2017) Real cash injection needed to curb child poverty. NZ Herald 31st August
• St John, S, So, Y (2017), Does the living wage provide an adequate standard of living for families? Policy Quarterly Volume 13 Number 3 2017 General Election.
• St John, S (2017) “Working together: charity and advocacy for policy change” , address to Board of Variety, Parenting centre Greenlane, 15th August, 2017
• St John, S (2017) Black and White or 50 shades of grey? Daily Blog 13th August, 2017

July

• St John, S (2017 Let he who is without sin cast the first stone Daily Blog 18th July 2017
• St John, S (2017) The Green’s Breathtakingly bold benefit policies Newsroom 20th July
• St John, S, So, Y (2017) Supporting family income I New Zealand and Australia, CPAG background paper

June

• St John, S (2017) Mean petty and wrong Daily Blog 9th June 2017

April May

• St John, S (2017) Can this budget turn the tide? 18th CPAG Budget Breakfast, Mt Albert War Memorial Hall, 26th May 2017
• St John, S (2017) Time to break open New Zealand’s decade’s long poverty trap Newsroom. Future learning, 30th May 2017, and, Tough love not working June UNINEWS
• Asher I & St John, S (2017), Child health and poverty in New Zealand AUT Policy observatory, posted May 2017
• St John, S (2017) “Tax and family assistance” in Progressive thinking: Ten perspectives on tax, eds R Thomas and K Windelov, PSA, Wellington, May 22nd 2017
• St John, S (2017) “Budget 2017: Make child obesity and child poverty priorities” NewsRoom, 22nd May, 2017, and “What’s in store for Working for Families?” Newsroom, May 21st, 2017
• St John, S. (2017) NZ-Oz situation dumps on Kiwis, New Zealand Herald, 15th May 2017
• St John, S (2017) Let’s have open slather on the 1990s Daily Blog 3rd May 2017
• St John, S (2017) What century are we living in? Daily Blog 6th April 2017
• St John. S Labour/Green Economics – these fiscal rules aren’t the beginning of the end, Daily Blog, 20th March, 2017

January February March

• St John, S (2017) What would you do Prime Minister English? Daily Blog March 19,2017
•  St John, S (2017) Kiwis deserve better on superannuation, Christchurch Press 8th March 2017
• St John, S & So Y. Children and the Living wage, Background paper for Child Poverty Action Group, March 2017
• St John, S (2017) “Contemporary social issues in unit standards: Child Poverty” presentation to the Commerce and Economics Teachers Association (CETA), February 28th, St Cuthberts college
• St John, S (2017) Tax cuts in store but what is Joyce thinking? Daily Blog / February 21, 2017
• St John, S (2016) oral submission to select committee on the 2016 Budget Statement, 8th February, 2017
• St John, S (2016) Visionless and exclusionary. A good future,​ just for people like Bill Daily Blog February 4, 2017

December

• St John, S (2016) Shades of I, Daniel Blake, Daily Blog 12th December, 2016
• So, Y and St John, S Children and the Living Wage, CPAG backgrounder, 15th December.
• St John, S ( 2016) Scrap the unfair spousal provision. Press Release, 15th December RPRC
• St John, S. RPRC (2016) Quarterly Update, RPRC, 18th December, 2016

November

• St John, S (2016) Families adrift: The social and economic climate of the 21st century guest presenter to ANZ Transactional Analysis Association Conference ‘Rupture Repair Restore, Auckland 25th November 2016
• St John, S (2016) Decumulation, Problems, policies and potentials? Financial Advisers Boosters) Annual Conference Grosvenor Financial Services Group Ltd, Wellington 4th November 2016

October

• Law lectures: Family Law: Child Poverty, Policy and the law, Part 1 and Part 2, Law school 17th October
• St John (2016) Time for Ireland to bite the bullet, Irish Times 1 November 2016
• St John, S (2016) We really don’t know how lucky we are, New Zealand Herald, October 12th, 2016
• St John, S (2016) A Faire suck of the sauce bottle! Daily blog, 9th October
• St John, S Interview Radio NZ 12th October Migrants’ parents cost NZ ‘tens of millions’ and Deadline proposed to get 10 percent of children out of poverty 3rd October
• Dale, M and St John, S (2016) New Zealand Superannuation policy and overseas state pensions. Paper prepared for the Retirement Commissioner’s three-yearly review 2016.

September

• St John, S (2016) “New Zealand’s Kiwi Saver Lessons for Ireland”. Paper presented to Insurance Ireland summit, A universal pension for Ireland, September 13th, Dublin, Ireland.
• St John, S (2016) Irish Newstalk fm, Craig Fitzpatrick asks Susan St John: “Could New Zealand have the answer to our growing pensions crisis?” 13 September 2016
• St John, S (2016) Countering targeting by using principles of basic income. Social Security Summit 2016: Investing in children, University of Auckland, 2nd September 2016
• St John, S (2016) Auckland shows government’ policy failures writ large, Daily blog, September 2nd 2016
• St John, S et al (2016) Child poverty summit, Waatea 5th Estate 1st September 2016.

August

• St John, S (2016) University of Auckland Ballot Box Speaker Series, Owen Glen Building, 30 August 2016
• St John, S (2016) Guest lecture: “Improving policies for families and children”, New Zealand Treasury, Wellington, August 22nd 2016
• St John, S and Johnson A,(2016) Hit housing bubble through tax NZ Herald, August 12th 2016
• St John, S (2016) NZIFF FILM REVIEW: Tale of two films Daily Blog, 1st August, 2016

july

• St John, S (2016) Rethinking retirement income doesn’t require superpowers, University of Auckland Business Review, (19) vol 1 2016
• St John, S (2016) Implications of discriminatory policies for women. The ‘within gender gap’. Gender and retirement saving forum RPRC Auckland Business school, July 15 2016
• St John, S (2016) Excuse me Minister, daily Blog 13th July, 2016
• St John, S (2016) Longer parental leave would not help some babies , NZ Herald 5th July 2016
• St John, S (2016) “Kathryn’s Story” highlights the need for major welfare overhaul”, Daily Blog 2nd July
• St John, S (2016) contributions to the 2016 Retirement review, KiwiSaver, and Decumulation, RPRC Commentary papers

June

• St John, S and C. MacLennan (2016) Interview: The Horror of Kathryn’s Story, Waatea Estate TV News, 30th June
• St John, S (2016) Some babies are more special than others. Daily Blog, June 17th
• St John, S and N. Turner (2016) Child Poverty Audit. Fabian Society, Auckland Business School – 22 June
• St John, S and M.Timmins (2016) MSD Evidence Seminar: Welfare provisions for the 21st century. Wellington Ministry of Social Development, 2nd June
• St John, S and I. Asher (2016) CPAG Post budget breakfast event Nelson, 1st June
• St John, S (2016) interviewed for Small number of taxpayers bear the brunt of New Zealand tax bill June 26th Stuff.co.nz Why you’ll never be able to retire, NZ Herald June 26th

May

• St John, S. (2016) The rules for the old too good for children? Daily Blog, 30th May.
• St John, S. (2016) Family First child poverty report questioned by experts Larry Williams Drive by show 30th May
• St John, S. (2016) Get married stay married and you won’t be poor Daily Blog, 31st May

April

• St John, S. (2016) Good Policy is rarely done on the run Daily Blog, 29th April
• St John, S (2016) ‘How to save like a Kiwi’ AARP International Journal Spring 2016 (UK)
• St John, S (2016) Fix Working for Families, Workshop Department of Social Work Otago University, Dunedin, 19th May

March

• St John, S (2016) Guest lecture ‘Is there an elephant in the room?’ Mt Eden’s IKA lunchtime lecture 30 March
• St John, S (2106) Paid Parental leave CPAG submission select committee, 16th March
• St John, S and M. O’Brien Workshop on Working for Families, University of Auckland Business School,17th march
• St John, S and M. O’Brien Workshop on Working for Families, UNICEF, Wellington,21st March
• St John, S. (2016) Jam tomorrow Jam yesterday. NEVER EVER JAM TODAY! 26th March

February

• St John, S (2016) The looming demographic pensions disaster. Daily Blog, 29th February
• St John, S (2016) Can older citizens lead the way to a universal basic income? In Basic Income in the Antipodes: Perspectives from the ‘Other Side of the World’. (Editors: Jenni Mays, Greg Marston and John Tomlinson)
• St John, S (2016) Brief of evidence in the Employment Court 10th Feb

January

• St John. S (2016) The danger of NZs demographics Daily Blog, 31st January
• St John, S (2016) Why solving the gender pay gap begins at home. Spinoff 28th January

November

• St John, S (2015) National does not understand what a work incentive requires, Daily Blog, 18th November

October

• St John, S (2015) The bizarre financialisation of tertiary education Daily Blog 29th October
• St John, S (2015) Women second class students in the neoliberal world, Daily Blog 7th October
• St John, S (2015) The unique New Zealand system for retirement income: Too simple or simply genius? Spotlight on Retirement Incomes Policy. Lunchtime seminar presented by the Australian Social Policy Association (ASPA) and the Brotherhood of St Laurence (BSL).Melbourne15th October 2015

September

• St John, S (2015), Improving the Affordability of New Zealand Superannuation, Psychosociological Issues in Human Resource Management 3(1): 81–100.
• St John, S (2015), Working for Families/incomes, Summit: Welfare fit for families in a changing world, Sept 8th, Auckland University

August

• St John,S (2015) Another week of neoliberal economics Daily Blog 9th July
• St John, S (2015) Reflections on the Budget 2015 Child Hardship Package, Policy Quarterly, Vol 11 No 3,Victoria School of Governance, Wellington
• Asher, I and St John,S (2015) Poverty, unhealthy housing and poor health in NZ children What needs to be done? Presentation to New Zealand First conference, Rotorua, 1^st August.

July

• St John,S (2015) How NZ can maintain equitable superannuation NZ herald Brand Insight, July 5^th
• St John,S (2015) Future proofing New Zealand Superannuation, 23^rd Annual Colloquium of Superannuation Researchers7, 5-6^th July 2015 CPS Research Group and the School of Risk and Actuarial Studies, UNSW, Sydney
• St John,S (2015) The cruelty of social welfare prosecutions against ‘benefit fraudsters’ Daily Blog 9^th July
• St John,S (2015) CPAG oral and written submission on the Child Hardship Bill, Select committee, Wellington

June

• St John,S (2015) Sex-and-beneficiaries-19^th-century-morality-in-21^st-century Daily Blog 22^nd June
• St John,S (2015) OECD report indicates a better policy direction is needed, CPAG press release, 16^th June
• St John,S (2015) Panel Privatisation of Social Services Mt Eden, IKA 9^th June
• St John,S (2015) Coupledom rules Daily Blog 8^th June
• St John,S (2015) Interview on the future of New Zealand Superannuation, Insight Pensions and tensions between generations Radio NZ , 7^th June
• St John,S (2015), Why are we sending women with children to prison? CPAG press release, 6^th June

May

• St John,S (2015) Can we please debate New Zealand Superannuation? Daily Blog 28^th May
• St John,S (2015) Carrot attack to get those lazy sole parents working Daily Blog May 26^th
• St John,S and A.Johnson (2015) Budget 2015 the impact on children, CPAG Annual budget breakfast, Western Spirngs community centre May 22^nd, 2017
• St John,S (2015) The Economics of Child Poverty – The Community of St Lukes Church, 130 Remuera Road, Auckland, 5th May
• St John,S (2015) Child Poverty tax and family income Law school, Guest lectures 443 Faculty of law, May 6th and May 14th
• St John,S (2015) A step change for Children, Fix Working for Families, AUT Briefing papers, May 2015

April

• S St John (2015) Of Mice and Men – try to see it, Daily Blog 14^th April
• S St John(2015) Injustice will eventually be overcome. Daily Blog 2^nd April

March

• S St John(2015) The Budget must get this one right: More income to fix child poverty. Daily Blog 27^th March
• S St John (2015) Social Policies that affect women, UN International women’s day Breakfast, Milord 6^th March

January/February

• S St John(2015) Universal basic income: let’s make a start with those over 65. Daily blog 19th February
• St John, S (2015) Child poverty is dwindling? Daily Blog 12^th February
• St John, S (2015) Improving the affordability of New Zealand Superannuation Working Paper 2015-1. Auckland: Retirement Policy and Research Centre, the University of Auckland.
• St John, S (2015) “Decumulation policy in New Zealand” in Beyond April 2015: the long view on UK pension reform REFORM, London, UK