Join us for the third session in our Tax on Tuesdays series Funding a Better Aotearoa - Why we need more revenue.

In this session Alicia Sudden, Max Rashbrooke and Vui Mark Gosche will address the topic 'Tackling Poverty and Inequality through Tax'.

Date: Tues, 7 October 2025

Time: 12:30-1:30 pm

Venue: Online - register here.

Alicia Sudden, is the Kaiwhakahaere Matua/ Chief Executive of the New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services (NZCCSS), a national umbrella organisation advocating for social justice and equity across Aotearoa. NZCCSS is a member of the Better Taxes Coalition. Alicia spent over seven years working at parliament which included advising the former Prime Minister on child poverty and as the senior advisor to the former deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Social Development.

Max Rashbrooke, is a writer and public intellectual, with interests in economic inequality and democratic renewal. His books include Too Much Money: How Wealth Disparities are Unbalancing Aotearoa New Zealand, Government for the Public Good: The Surprising Science of Large-Scale Collective Action and Inequality: A New Zealand Crisis. An adjunct research associate in Victoria University’s School of Government. He has recently helped launch IDEA, the Institute for Democratic and Economic Analysis, a new public policy think-tank. 

Vui Mark Gosche, Retired Chair of CMDHB, Housing NZ and Kāinga Ora Boards, former Cabinet Minister, MP, and trade union leader. He has held numerous governance roles in the not for profit sector, and has worked in the public service and in the Pacific NGO sector – specifically in the disability, mental health and older peoples sector.

Register for the session here.