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'I was safer on the street' woman tells abuse inquiry
A life of abuse from an early age has been outlined to the inquiry into abuse in care by a woman of Tongan and Palagi descent.
The Royal Commission is focusing on the historical abuse in care of… Audio
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Christchurch developer tries to deter homeless with Rick Astley
People who regularly walk down one stretch of Christchurch's central city may get the feeling that they are always hearing one particular very catchy Rick Astley song blasting out on to the footpath.
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Dawn raids a racist attack on Pasifika people, abuse inquiry told
The dawn raids of the 1970s still haunt Pacific island people to this day.
Tigilau Ness, a New Zealand born Niuean, is an activist with Polynesian Panthers.
He's told the inquiry into abuse in care… Audio
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South African expats ask for border exceptions amid unrest
South African expats are gathering in Wellington and Auckland today to ask the government to consider exceptions for families separated by the closed borders. Audio
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Opinions sought on route to fair chance at life
The Productivity Commission wants to hear from the public about how everyone in New Zealand can get a fair chance at life.
The independent crown entity wants to launch an inquiry into why some people… Audio
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Tax is Love, says Shamubeel Eaqub
A panel at Wanaka's Festival of Colour considers whether taxation is love. Lynn Freeman talks to Max Rashbrooke, Prof. Lisa Marriott and Shamubeel Eaqub in April 2021. Audio
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South Africa: Calm restored to most places - president
Unrest that has ripped through South Africa in the past week is stabilising, but the destruction will cost the country millions of dollars, says President Cyril Ramaphosa.
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MSD reimburses mother $13k after years of unfair sanctions
After more than year of waiting for a Ministry of Social Development review, a woman who was unfairly sanctioned for failing to name her child's father has been repaid.
Under the sanction, many women… Video, Audio
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Women are still more likely to report news than be in it
Opinion - Women are more visible in the world's news than ever before - but they're still far from achieving parity with men, and this has deeper implications for society Associate Professor Susan…
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Canada reckons with abuse, killings of indigenous children
An indigenous woman says her experience in the forced residential school system for indigenous people in Canada made her ashamed to be brown.
Geraldine Shingoose says she has cried every day since… Audio
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Unemployment down, but are jobs enough to cover rising costs?
The government's counting another drop in unemployment numbers as a win - but others say they don't paint the whole picture.
Over the past three months, more than 31,000 people found jobs and got off… Audio
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MSD Minister discusses delayed reviews of sanctions cases
Thousands of women who had their benefits docked are still waiting for their cases to be reviewed more than two years after the Minister ordered MSD to take a second look.
The women had up to $28 a… Video, Audio
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Top earning emergency housing provider owes thousands in wage subsidies, tax
A now defunct Auckland company which received nearly $15 million to house the homeless now owes the government tens of thousands of dollars in wage subsidies and tax payments.
Silverfern Property… Audio
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The nurses' dispute - complications set in
Nurses have more industrial action planned as frustration with shortages and pay boil over - what's behind the anger? Audio
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Extra $20 a week not enough to fix housing crisis for beneficiaries - budgeters
While welcoming this month's benefit increase, a group of South Auckland budgeters say it is going to require more than a few dollars to fix the "horrifying" debt faced by so many of their clients.
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Covid-19: Canterbury vaccine rollout under close scrutiny
The Covid-19 vaccine rollout for Canterbury is under close scrutiny after the District Health Board admitted it won't be getting started on group four until mid-September.
It was already well behind… Audio
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MSD reviews of scrapped sanction cases painfully slow - AAAP
Advocacy group Auckland Action Against Poverty (AAAP) has 38 cases on its books, with women appealing past MSD sanctions, in the hope of getting years of deductions repaid.
One of those women has… Video, Audio
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Woman sanctioned by MSD over fear of naming child's father owed thousands
Welfare advocates say thousands of women who had benefits docked unfairly because they could not or would not name their child's father could be entitled to significant lump sum refunds.
But the… Video, Audio
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Shaw ties climate response to inequality, biodiversity and Treaty partnership
New Zealand's battle against climate change must target inequality and include genuine partnership with Māori, Climate Change Minister James Shaw says.
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Health Minister Andrew Little on fresh nurses strikes
Thirty thousand nurses in the country's public hospitals strike again over a lack of action on pay and conditions.
They walked off the wards in hospitals in June when employment talks with their… Audio
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Oranga Tamariki reports show numerous instances of staff harming children
There have been 40 instances where Oranga Tamariki staff have physically harmed children in their care in the last two-and-a-half years.
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NZ's healthcare system racist towards Pasifika - report
The healthcare system has been labeled 'unacceptably racist', with Pasifika suffering the worst health inequities.
That's according to a new report by the Health Quality & Safety Commission.
As RNZ… Audio
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Christchurch boys respond to sexual harassment survey
There's a call to better educate young men and boys to quit the cat-calls, locker room talk and the sharing of nude photos and videos. It follows the release last week of a survey of sexual assault… Audio
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'Night and day' difference working in Australia over NZ - Nurse
A New Zealand nurse living in Australia says working there is streets ahead of working in New Zealand.
Jess Purcell has worked as a nurse in three Australian states and says there is a night and day… Audio
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Covid-19 vaccine rest home rollout likened to postcode lottery
The vaccine rollout in rest homes has been likened to a postcode lottery, with residents in Nelson/Marlborough already fully vaccinated whilst others in Waitematā are only just receiving their first… Audio