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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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Under 5s health reforms could address ethnic inequalities
Inequalities for Māori and Pasifika could be challenged by new healthcare services reforms for children under five. A Government review has found children are slipping through the cracks of its health… Audio
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Pasifika in NZ most likely to be hospitalised for Covid-19
A recently published New Zealand Medical Journal article, indicated that Pasifika are three times more likely to be hospitalised for the virus than other ethnic groups.
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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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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?
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Government unveils plan to repurpose healthcare for babies
The government is promising a major shake up to expand the range of healthcare services for babies from ages zero to five years old.
It comes after a review of the Well Child Tamariki Ora programme… Audio
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Breaking the homogeneity of 'Asian': Report on inequities among students
Voices - A new report on Asian students' health and wellbeing finds explores their experiences of lack of safe spaces, "achievement pressure", poverty, mental health, and discrimination. Audio
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Hospitalisation risk from Covid highest for Pasifika
Pasifika in New Zealand face the highest risk of hospitalisation due to Covid-19.
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Breaking the homogeneity of 'Asian': Report on inequities among students
A new report paints a pretty detailed picture on youth well-being amongst East and South Asian students - and some of the stats are not pretty. Produced by Kadambari Raghukumar Audio
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Breaking the homogeneity of 'Asian': Report on inequities among students
A new report paints a pretty detailed picture on youth well-being amongst East and South Asian students - and some of the stats are not pretty. Produced by Kadambari Raghukumar
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'Emotions are still running high'
The government is being called on to hold an independent review of the country's opera sector, following claims of mismanagement by the New Zealand Opera company.
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Socio-economic hardship leading to premature deaths in South Auckland
Poverty, deprivation and poor access to healthcare are driving premature deaths in south Auckland, experts say.
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Inquiry launched into truancy: 'It has been getting worse'
Parliament's education committee says school attendance has been dropping since 2015 across "all regions, all ethnicities, all deciles and all year levels".
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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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Health system systemically racist towards Pasifika - report
Statistics for Pasifika mothers 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
Audio 7 Jul 2021A new report out from the Health Quality & Safety Commission has outlined Pasifika are at the tail end of the country's worst health inequities. Audio
