How ready are we for “shovel-ready” projects?

By Julian Wood

As the numbers of people made redundant as a result of COVID-19 rises there is ever increasing pressure on the…

Danielle speaks on Mahi – The Disability Employment Podcast

Danielle was invited to speak on the very first podcast of Mahi – The Disability Employment Podcast, hosted by Jonathan…

Work = wellbeing

By Danielle van Dalen

“Choose a job you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.” This cliché was printed on a…

Creating poverty-busting opportunites that work for people with disabilities

By Alex Penk

by Alex Penk and Danielle van Dalen This week there’s been a lot of coverage about employment opportunities for people…

MEDIA RELEASE: Creating work opportunities for people with disabilities to get out of poverty

Thursday, 23 May In New Zealand people with disabilities earn just half of the average income of people without disabilities….

Vocational surgery required

By Kieran Madden

Our vocational educational system is on life support— haemorrhaging badly in desperate need of surgery. Four of New Zealand’s sixteen…

Learning Support funding should bridge to work

By Danielle van Dalen

School can be difficult for everyone, but for students with disabilities the difficulties are generally heightened. The Prime Minister acknowledged…

Acknowledging Ability

By Danielle van Dalen

When we talk about poverty, we rarely consider people with disabilities as a group who are particularly at risk. But…

Discussion Paper | Acknowledging Ability

By Danielle van Dalen

 People who are living with a disability are vastly overrepresented in New Zealand’s poverty figures, and 74 percent of those…

Creating opportunities to contribute

By Danielle van Dalen

Last week New Zealander Robert Martin took up his position in Geneva as Spokesperson for Disabled People on the United…

Our insecure future of work

By Kieran Madden

Many pinned Trump’s election and the Brexit vote as being fueled by people’s fear of losing their way of life….

Valuing access to work

By Danielle van Dalen

Unemployment is costly. It costs the unemployed person and it costs society. For plenty of people with disabilities this cost…

Welfare to work?

By Kieran Madden

Just where do people go when they move off a benefit? It’s a serious question that demands an answer. Why?…

Removing the barriers

By Danielle van Dalen

I was 12 when my grandfather lost his eye and was declared officially blind. In the following months and years…

The true cost of getting “Ready for Work”

By Julian Wood

Labour’s “Ready For Work” policy is a great idea. Unveiled at the party’s conference, the plan offers on the job…

Stretching the potential of flexible work

By Danielle van Dalen

“All we really want is a little control – and to make that 6 o’clock yoga class once in a…

Productive thinking

By Julian Wood

Everybody wants New Zealand to be a great place to work and live. High wages, high growth, high productivity, low…

Making work pay in the UK

By Kieran Madden

The freshly-elected UK Conservative Government unveiled their first budget last week. Pointedly reminding those in the House of the sluggish…

The minimum wage web

By Jane Silloway Smith

At one point in my early school years, my science teacher totally upended my views on nature. Up to that…

What is a Living Wage?

The campaign for a living wage has once again come to the fore as a result of the on-going contest…