Our systems - economic, housing, health, and short-term political thinking - have created poverty, and continue to lock too many in its grip. Should a developed nation continue to tolerate the harm inflicted on people’s lives? How can we redesign the country to eradicate poverty?

Rebecca Macfie is a leading investigative journalist, and the author of major books about Pike River Mine and Helen Kelly. During 2024, she was a fellow at the Stout Institute at Victoria University where she researched responses to poverty, and coordinated a seminar series and a major conference on poverty. 

Max Rashbrooke is a researcher, writer and speaker on democracy and economic inequality and has written extensively on child poverty. His TED.com talk on upgrading democracy has had 1.5 million views.

Rebecca photo credit - Sam Brett 

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