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  • Shaun Robinson
  • Shaun Robinson
    Executive Director
    NZAF National Office, Auckland
  • 09 300 3124
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Shaun is responsible for the overall strategic management and leadership of the NZAF and leads the national executive team, reporting directly to the NZAF Trust Board. He starts on 24 January 2011.

Over his 25 years Shaun has worked in Australia and New Zealand in a variety of roles from youth and community worker to counsellor, social issues advocate, policy advisor to politicians, health sector consultant, CEO of social and health services as well as various governance roles. Some key achievements include:

• Initiating a high profile national social justice campaign though the churches in 1993/4.
• Drawing media attention to the social impacts of “the mother of all budgets” via a range of research documents and media campaigns during 1992‐1994.
• Piloting innovative social services including: community development for disadvantaged older people, youth advocacy on marae based courts, social and educational support for young people on the verge of being expelled from school.
• Designing a patient focused structure for public health services.
• Refocusing Presbyterian Support East Coast’s work with older people from institutional care to innovative community based support.
• Developing Treaty frameworks and cultural responsiveness programmes at service, management and governance level. These have led to many collaborative projects with Iwi organisations.
• Influencing significant increases in government funding for the NZ family support sector.
• Achieving significant increases in organisational revenues.
• Major fundraising and brand developments.
• Initiating an annual training on governance and management in the no for profit sector.

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  • May 14 2012, 12:38pm

    Gonorrhoea in Auckland

    Posted by admin

    A cadre of organisations is raising the alarm about an increase in gonorrhoea among Auckland’s gay and bisexual men....


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