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Call to backpay people denied benefits due to redundancy payout
Auckland Action Against Poverty is calling on the Government to proactively backpay people who have been denied a benefit because they got redundancy pay when they were laid off.
An RNZ investigation… Audio
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Without Keytruda, 30 deaths a week in NZ from cancer - Lung Foundation
Pharmac's decision to backtrack on funding Keytruda is a major blow for equality in New Zealand's health system, a leading oncologist says.
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Lockdown social cohesion likely to fall as 'acute' phase ends - scientists
The sense of national unity felt during the lockdown may disappear as social isolation and economic costs hit home, a report by leading social scientists warns.
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Coronavirus: Lockdown prompts change on rough sleeping
Could the lockdown signal the end of rough sleeping? Former rough sleepers and community housing groups think it could.
More than 1000 people have been housed in last five weeks and the government… Audio
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Police officer jailed for six years over rape of colleague
A disgraced police officer who raped his female colleague as she slept has been jailed for six years.
Jamie Foster raped the woman at a Kerikeri motel they had been put up in while working during… Audio
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Govt warned of huge rise in poverty following Covid-19
New Zealand should brace itself for a new wave of immense poverty and mental distress as it grapples with the fallout from Covid-19.
That was the warning to MPs on the Epidemic Response Committee… Audio
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Quarantine exemption process 'cruel' - daughters of dying mother
Two sisters battling to get out of mandatory isolation early to see their dying mother says the exemption process is cruel and flawed.
The pair flew back to New Zealand from Melbourne on April 18, 11… Audio
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Air NZ crews hoping to halt redundancies until alert level 2
Air NZ has hit heavy turbulence with an escalating industrial dispute over claims hundreds of flight attendants are about to be laid off, and ongoing questions about whether the company is doing… Video, Audio
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Post Covid-19: The case for a job guarantee scheme
Opinion - New Zealand has won praise for its bold response to Covid-19, but should be equally ambitious in refusing catastrophic levels of unemployment, Cat MacLennan writes.
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'GPs are feeling almost abandoned'
The Epidemic Response Committee has today heard from medical specialists, midwives and community support workers.
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At least 33,000 NZers on benefit since level 4 lockdown began
In the four weeks since the country's been in lockdown, 33,000 more people have ended up on the benefit.
The Ministry of Social Development says the demand is higher than the peak of the global… Audio
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Covid-19 level 4 lockdown: How has it been for Manurewa?
Friday marks New Zealand's final Friday in level 4 lockdown.
With all things going to plan, this will hopefully be the last time we are under these restrictions.
The lockdown has been like nothing… Video, Audio
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Ōtara volunteers work hard to get food to vulnerable
In Auckland's Ōtara a team of locals has been working hard to get food and essentials out to some of the suburb's most vulnerable residents.
Every Thursday the team has been gathering to fill large… Video, Audio
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A dog's POV during lockdown
Audio 23 Apr 2020Mimicking his Golden Labrador Lara while they both wear neck ruffs made from rolls of toilet paper, is the Covid-19 lockdown project of New Zealand academic and performance artist Dr Mark Harvey. Video
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London lockdown offers glimpse of more neighbourly future
Opinion - Lockdown in London has given Clementine de Pressigny a new appreciation of her neighbours, people she had very little contact with before.
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Coronavirus: Foodbanks hit by 'Christmas on steroids'
After four weeks in lockdown, food banks around the country are seeing a dramatic rise in the number of people needing help to put food on their tables.
Demand for food parcels has jumped nine-fold… Audio
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Food banks swamped with demand during lockdown
Food banks around the country say they have been operating at levels similar to Christmas during the four weeks of lockdown.
Auckland City Missioner, Chris Farrelly says more and more people - some… Audio
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Du'Plessis Kirifi: The new breed of rugby star
With rugby sidelined there's been little speculation over which players might bolt into the All Blacks, but one who seems destined to don the black jersey is Hurricanes flanker Du'Plessis Kirifi. Video
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What does the superhero craze say about our own times?
Superman and his descendants launched a fascination with technological superism that continues today. Iwan Rhys Morus is professor of history at Aberystwyth University in Wales and has recently… Audio
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Coronavirus: Elderly feeling isolated during pandemic
The focus will still be on keeping contact with others to the bare minimum once the country moves to Alert Level 3, but some restrictions around travel, business and activities will be loosened.
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Coronavirus: 5000 welfare requests to Queenstown Lakes District Council
Around three quarters of the people seeking welfare support in the Queenstown Lakes district are migrant workers and foreign nationals.
The Emergency Operations Centre led by the Queenstown Lakes… Audio
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Coronavirus: Call for benefit relationship rules to be scrapped
The Council of Trade Unions says with more unemployment looming, Work and Income rules on benefits for people in relationships need to be scrapped.
Job seeker benefits can be cut to nothing depending… Audio
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Coronavirus: Burwood Hospital staff given access to N-95 masks, visors
Medical staff at Burwood Hospital have only just been given access to the highest level of face masks and visors - despite caring for the most Covid-19 cases of any hospital.
Six people from the… Audio
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Covid-19 lockdown tough on overcrowded households
Imagine living with 10 or more other people in a small house with one bathroom and one kitchen between you.
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Coronavirus: Aged Care Association CEO on plan to buy test kits
Resthomes are considering buying their own testing kits, because the Ministry of Health has refused to test new admissions.
Yesterday a third death at Rosewood rest home in Christchurch was… Audio