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The government will spend $300 million on emergency housing, funding an extra 1400 places around the country, the Minister for Social Housing says. Video

Labour has reaffirmed its best-start policy, which would pay $60 dollars a week to families with children under one year old, deputy leader Annette King says.

Parliament has been told it needs to seriously look at introducing a gender quota system to get more women in the house.

The Race Relations Commissioner says the kind of racial discrimination experienced by an Auckland councillor's family is something she hears about all the time. Audio

Papua New Guinea have claimed underdog status for today's Oceania Rugby Women's Championship clash against Fiji in Suva.

Labour is turning its sights to next year's election as party members and MPs gather in Auckland tonight for the party's annual conference.

The Auckland councillor whose Samoan family were refused VIP seating at this week's council swearing-in ceremony says the incident is just the latest example of systemic racism in New Zealand. Audio

Nine people have been arrested for trespassing following a protest at a recruitment agency in Auckland.

A budgeting service that has missed out on government funding says it lost the contract because it deals with the working poor rather than beneficiaries.

Fairtrade CEO says free trade agreements need to target the most marginalised to be truly successful. Audio

New Zealand has moved up one place in the latest global gender gap index compiled by the World Economic Forum.

There were about 2000 more requests for help for children with special needs last year, but satisfaction with the service fell, the Ministry of Education annual report shows.

Britain is to pardon thousands of gay and bisexual men who were convicted of crimes under sexual offence laws that have since been abolished.

Women across Argentina have walked out of their workplaces for one hour to protest gender-related violence after the brutal rape and murder of a teenage girl.

Too many jobs are going to migrant workers instead of young, struggling New Zealanders, the Salvation Army says.

There could be thousands of immigrants being abused at work but the government is unwilling to pay to root out modern-day slave-traders, an immigration adviser says.