[Bob Geldof] to present poverty petition

from Stuff

Rock musician and humanitarian campaigner Bob Geldof will today present a petition in Auckland calling on the Prime Minister to act against poverty.

Sir Bob, famous first as a rock singer then as the organiser of 1985's Live Aid concert against global hunger, arrived in the country yesterday to speak at The Influentials business leadership show, along with Sex Pistols founder Malcolm McLaren, Saatchi and Saatchi world-wide creative director Bob Isherwood, and Trademe founder Sam Morgan.

A show in Melbourne on Tuesday was cancelled because of a lack of interest.

But the New Zealand show is to go ahead and at midday today Sir Bob will be in front of the Aotea Centre to sign Make Poverty History's petition before handing it over to the group's New Zealand chairman Barry Coates.

Make Poverty History says the group aims to place pressure on the Government to "make political decisions that will help deliver justice to the world's poorest people".