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White Cross saga a symptom of healthcare crisis, poverty advocate says
Many parents were shocked about the $49 fee for a medical visit for kids under 14.
Emma Priest: Why ‘getting tough on crime’ doesn’t work
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Simon Wilson: The 'soft on crime' debate - should we use a Swat team, not KFC, to get kids off roof?
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Green Party looking to snare Labour's disaffected voters
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Letters: Rental properties, nurses' pay, EVs and farm emissions
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Letters: Science in decline, te reo and the economy
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Editorial: French riots a new eruption of an old problem
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’We need a system that treats people with respect’: Calls to wipe welfare debt
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'They're like gold': Appeal for donations of PJs and clothes
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No power in some households, high prices in others
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Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: Why Muldoon had the right idea when it came to gangs
OPINION: But National's new policy sounds like Groundhog Day.
Debbie Ngarewa-Packer: When subject is crime, cue old blame and shame game
OPINION: National have not cited a single policy to reduce crime.
The silence of the wolves: Where's the response to the Greens' poverty plan?
Why such a deafening silence in the wake of the Greens' new tax policy?
Rob Campbell: Sickening how Kiwis react to poor Māori, Pasifika health outcomes
OPINION: Māori and Pasifika patients in our hospitals get worse treatment outcomes.
Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: Only luck has prevented more tragedies like Loafers Lodge
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Editorial: A taxing question
Opinion: Our editorial on the diverging political viewpoints on taxation.
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Chlöe Swarbrick: If it’s the economy, it's not stupid to define what that means
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Rugby star's challenge to New Zealanders: save money and the planet
Black Fern Portia Woodman-Wickliffe is on a mission to reduce food waste.
Debbie Ngarewa-Packer: Ending poverty requires serious Govt approach
Kaumatua need affordable housing and healthcare, and sufficient income.
Is Labour really soft on crime? The numbers reveal a surprising story
The Herald has analysed decades of data to see how crime has changed in Aotearoa.
MSD debt balloons to $2.4 billion, family debt rises 25 per cent in a year
Campaigner says Govt inquiry needed to reveal true extent of poverty in NZ.
Opinion: Poverty is a circumstance - not a character flaw
Opinion: "It’s a cycle. A trap. And one that is incredibly difficult to escape."
Only a third of boarding houses have sprinklers
Most buildings like Wellington's Loafers Lodge do not have sprinklers.
Inflation takes away gains from Labour’s Working for Families package
Inflation is eating away at people's benefits.
Opinion: We need to talk about young people and homelessness
What is more basic than food on the table, and a roof over your head?
Editorial: Poor suffer as the world churns
Opinion: Our editorial on the lasting effects of extreme weather on the poorest.
Opinion: Some home truths about poverty in NZ
Bill Capamagian: Help the deserving poor and stop pandering to the ratbags.
Peter Davis: A tale of two budgets
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Local Focus: Meet the Nanas knitting for the Cool Kids
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Michael J Fox reveals unusual grocery habit
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