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Our mission is to tautoko (support) and whakamana (uplift) everyday New Zealanders to act together in powerful and coordinated ways to create what we cannot achieve on our own: a society, economy and democracy that serves all of us - everyday people and Papatūānuku, the planet we love.
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Thousands Come In Behind Call For Free Dental Care For Adults
Friday, 24 March 2023, 7:03 am | ActionStation
Over 10,000 people have signed a petition calling for dental care to be brought into the public healthcare system. On Monday, polling was released showing strong public support for dental care to be funded for adults as it is for children, with ... More >>
More than 7 out of 10 People Support Bringing Dental into Public Healthcare System - New Poll
Monday, 20 March 2023, 5:58 am | ActionStation
More than 7 out of 10 adults in New Zealand support bringing dental into the public health system, according to a new poll commissioned by the union for senior doctors and dentists and released today, on World Oral Health Day (20 March). The poll, conducted ... More >>
Leading Advocacy Group Launches Campaign For Ministry Of Green Works In Aftermath Of Cyclone Gabrielle
Tuesday, 7 March 2023, 6:17 am | ActionStation
Leading advocacy group ActionStation has today launched a campaign for a large-scale government-led housing and infrastructure programme to address the impacts of Cyclone Gabrielle. The group, which led a campaign to raise benefit levels ahead of Budget ... More >>
11,000 Back Call For New Zealand To Stop Sending Its Plastic Waste To Developing Nations
Wednesday, 27 July 2022, 5:17 am | ActionStation
26 July A petition with over 11,000 signatures calling on New Zealand to stop sending our plastic recycling to developing countries was delivered to Parliament today. The petition leader, Lydia Chai, a Malaysian based in Auckland, says New Zealand ... More >>
People On Income Support Excluded From Cost Of Living Budget Measures - Anti-Poverty Groups
Thursday, 19 May 2022, 3:48 pm | ActionStation
A coalition of anti-poverty groups has challenged the Government for excluding people receiving income support from today’s cost of living ‘helicopter payments’, saying they have chosen to leave families living in the harshest poverty further ... More >>
Fairer Future: Government Needs To Go Further With Benefit Increases
Friday, 1 April 2022, 11:05 am | ActionStation
The Fairer Future collaboration is calling on the Labour-led Government to increase income support rates further to catch up with the cost of living. The collaboration, which is made up of service providers, advocacy groups and unions, released research ... More >>
ActionStation Supports The Call To Protect Pūtiki
Thursday, 8 July 2021, 3:42 pm | ActionStation
ActionStation supports the peaceful occupation taking place at Pūtiki Bay, and the decision by the Ngāti Paoa Trust Board to place a rāhui on the area to protect local kororā (little penguins) by preventing development of the Kennedy Point Marina. ... More >>
Anti-Poverty Campaigners Say Welfare Increases Are “Too Little, Too Late”
Friday, 21 May 2021, 2:57 pm | ActionStation
ActionStation has acknowledged steps in the right direction in Budget 2021 but criticised the slow roll-out of changes to the welfare system and the scale of the changes. ActionStation economic fairness campaigner Ruby Powell says “These increases are ... More >>
New Report On Loneliness Shows Need To Lift Income Support To Build "Resilient, Thriving Communities" - ActionStation
Tuesday, 13 April 2021, 5:48 am | ActionStation
Responding to the Helen Clark Foundation's report, 'Still Alone Together', ActionStation Economic Fairness Campaigner Ruby Powell said: "The high levels of loneliness recorded in this report by unemployed people, sole parents and people receiving the ... More >>
NGOs Say Time For The Government To “Step Up” As Social Security Tweaks Kick In
Thursday, 1 April 2021, 6:22 am | ActionStation
ActionStation and NZ Disability Advisory Trust are amongst a network of NGOs calling on the Government to go further than the small improvements to income support levels that come in today. “There is a growing consensus across the country that income ... More >>
ActionStation Stands In Solidarity With Welfare Protests
Tuesday, 8 December 2020, 5:24 pm | ActionStation
Photo Credit: Evan Dubisky ActionStation Campaigner Ruby Powell says the organisation stands in solidarity with protests about government inaction on poverty held in Wellington and Auckland today. “For too long people in this government have chosen to ignore ... More >>
10,000 Strong Petition Calls For Government To Give Māori Wards A Fair Go
Wednesday, 2 December 2020, 8:08 am | ActionStation
ActionStation and Te Rōpū Tautoko Māori will deliver two petitions in support of Māori wards today at midday. The petitions will be presented in a public event to Labour MP Tāmati Coffey. The petitions have been signed by over 10,000 people ... More >>
NGOs To Government: Benefits Must Be Increased By Christmas
Monday, 9 November 2020, 8:43 am | ActionStation
ActionStation is one of 53 NGOs who are calling on the government to raise benefit rates before Christmas via an open letter launched this morning. The NGOs have signed an open letter addressed to PM Jacinda Ardern, Minister for Social Development Carmel ... More >>
Labour Commit To Benefit Increases And Individualisation, National Commit To Nothing
Thursday, 17 September 2020, 9:20 am | ActionStation
Organisers of Enough for All election forum last night, say they were pleasantly surprised to hear Andrew Little commit Labour to increasing benefit levels and ensuring everyone, no matter their relationship status, can access benefits entitlements. ... More >>
ActionStation Joins Call Against Planned Income Support Cuts
Friday, 4 September 2020, 5:30 pm | ActionStation
ActionStation has joined Child Poverty Action Group and Auckland Action Against Poverty in urging the government to extend the Winter Energy Payment period beyond the planned end date of October 1. “This year Winter Energy Payments for all beneficiaries ... More >>
95,000 Support Rent And Housing Relief In Petition Delivery
Thursday, 2 April 2020, 1:34 pm | ActionStation
WHAT: An online delivery event for two petitions with a combined 95,000 signatures. The petitions call for a number of changes including for the New Zealand Government to suspend rent and mortgage payments, and to buy unoccupied homes for the homeless. ... More >>
Changes to Oranga Tamariki welcomed by petitioners
Thursday, 7 November 2019, 8:34 pm | ActionStation
The community action group that brought the petition for a complete overhaul of Oranga Tamariki to Parliament in July welcome the changes announced by the ministry today. More >>
Government underfunding of sexual violence prevention harms
Tuesday, 30 April 2019, 9:22 am | ActionStation
Government underfunding of sexual violence prevention, support and education is harming New Zealanders, says new report More >>
6,500 make joint submission for gun law reform to go further
Thursday, 4 April 2019, 10:59 am | ActionStation
In less than 24 hours more than 6,500 people have added their support to a joint submission on the Arms (Prohibited Firearms, Magazines, and Parts) Amendment Bill calling for gun law reform to go further. More >>
Petitioners welcome gun law reform announcement
Thursday, 21 March 2019, 6:57 pm | ActionStation
At 11.30am on Thursday, Wellingtonian Nik Green, Industrial Designer Brad Knewstubb and mum of three Hannah Clarke presented their combined 70,000-strong petitions to Parliament for a ban on semi-automatic weapons and greater firearm advertising regulations. More >>
