More comprehensive plan needed to end child poverty – Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) strongly endorses the Children’s Commissioner’s call for all parties to work together to reduce child…
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Our Children’s Future Hikoi
Has fairness and equality deteriorated so much in New Zealand that mothers and their children have to walk 400 kilometres…
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Salvation Army Adds Voice to Calls for Cross-Party Response to Child Poverty
The Salvation Army strongly supports the call from Children’s Commissioner Judge Andrew Becroft for cross-party agreement on efforts to reduce…
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NZRDA Issues Strike Notices to the 20 DHBs
Resident Doctors throughout New Zealand have voted to take strike action in support of their claims for safer rosters and…
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The human faces of medicine – doctors draw deep from their experiences – ASMS
New Zealand’s doctors are writing from the heart in an innovative online project that shows what it is really like…
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Horror stories inside Auckland Woman’s Prison
The fact that they have woman vs. child offenders, including extremely violent ones (including those that have committed a range of serious sex crimes) being housed with youths, together- rather than separate, should be of concern to all of us.
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It’s official – the Waimakariri River is unswimmable.
This sign is in a Christchurch City Council area close to the mouth of the river near a popular summer swimming spot.
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National care more about birds than children in poverty
…why would the PM be so crass? Because he knows via his polling that the rump of his vote blame poor people for having children they can’t feed. Key is delighting in making this point while more educated souls gasp and that’s probably deliberate. Key is reaching out to his own voting base’s bias by saving birds but leaving the poor to fend for themselves.
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Malcolm Evans – Northland 48 Waikato 27
Malcolm Evans – Northland 48 Waikato 27
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Let’s be honest, John Key doesn’t give a toss about poor children and neither do National voters
…before he was elected, John Key couldn’t stop talking about the growing underclass in NZ and how he was going to fix it. 8 years later and homelessness is worse, inequality is worse and child poverty is worse.