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'You can take the job, not my humanity': Board member refuses to move on homeless man
Roddy Hapati Pihema says he'd rather lose his job than displace vulnerable people.
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Letters: 'Brutal' arithmetic for struggling superannuatants
OPINION: Grey areas over super fail to appreciate couples are often struggling.
As a doctor and former Health Minister, National’s beneficiary drug test is punitive and wrong
OPINION: The proposed approach assumes beneficiaries are taking drugs just for fun.
Children in healthy homes 30% less likely to be hospitalised
Researchers analysed hospital data for more than 17,000 children aged 2 to 18.
Evicted pensioner who sparked Spain housing protests dies: Tenants union
Maricarmen Abascal, 87, was evicted after the apartment owner drastically hiked the rent.
Fear and anger as rough sleepers ordered to move on from Whangārei site
Whangārei District Council gave campers at the Old Boys' site 10 days to leave.
Homeless Kiwi man booked on one-way flight to NZ instead of temporary housing
Mark Hudson was living in a tent city in Wagga Wagga after falling on hard times.
Controversial move-on orders pass third reading under urgency
Police gain power to move on people for disorder, begging or rough sleeping.
UK health boss says NHS fuelling obesity by abandoning breastfeeding
Only 26% of babies in England are exclusively breastfed at six months.
Girls worst hit by climate shocks on schools: Unicef
Storms affected 109 million students, while floods hit at least 70 million.
Solo parent trap: Minister sought advice on controversial policy but no plans for change
Officials provided alternatives to the system in 2024 but these were ultimately dismissed.
Kenyans did university students’ homework for years. Then AI arrived
New York Times: Online gig work has been a global lifeline. AI has changed that.
MPs suggest Government weaken move-on orders in just-released select committee report
The committee has made a number of suggested changes.
'We're living in a very bad time': Pensioners struggling with basic expenses
Grey Power says older people need better support as living costs rise.
Giving a lie to the claim 'work is the way out of poverty' for families with kids
OPINION: More than half of all children in poverty live in homes supported by paid work.
Officially 10,000 high schoolers leave with no NCEA each year – it’s actually worse than that
Data misses unqualified teens who have no Level 1 and leave without finishing Level 2.
The sponsored child whose schooling put him on a path to a new life in Hawke's Bay
Ronald Jeero used to hide under classroom desks to attend school in Uganda.
'This is our rainbow': Hamilton's new food lifeline for whānau
The Norton Rd store offers food, advice and support, but only by referral.
The sneaky debt that can lead to a spiral
Financial mentors are seeing an increase in debt that borrowers don't recognise as debt.
Kāinga Ora: Are more out-of-towners coming to Rotorua for housing?
About 200 people queued at Feeding Rotorua’s Monday dinner service last week.
‘The kids we’re failing’: The missing 10,000, even as NCEA results improve
Minister: 'Why are they failing? Because they’re not literate and numerate.'
Homeless adults and children at risk of hypothermia in freezing conditions
Rotorua's coldest temperature on record has social agencies worried for vulnerable people.
Editorial: Child poverty report a devastating reflection of our values
OPINION: Māori and Pasifika children are disproportionately impacted.
We've forgotten how to tackle child poverty
OPINION: Sad child poverty statistics mask the fact that we have had success in the past.