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Political Roundup: Labour's worst week highlights its existential crisis

OPINION: The Labour Party's fortunes go from bad to worse.

Māori academic wants more research into poverty among tamariki

The Government should focus on the causes of high poverty, says Meihana Durie.

Audrey Young: Child poverty statistics intensify battle over welfare reform

OPINION: The stats relate to Labour's time in office, which makes them politically tricky.

109,000 Kiwis on Jobseeker welfare for more than a year

The PM says he's seen enough evidence to prove the use of sanctions should be ramped up.

Chlöe Swarbrick: New benefit policy will push more into poverty

Comment: People in poverty are not the problem, the system is, writes Chlöe Swarbrick.

Audrey Young: The real jobseeker shocker everybody missed

OPINION: Critics might want to check the fine print before they cry 'cruelty'.

'Fights breaking out' as 'organised' beggars make up to $400 a day

'It’s the easiest way to get a something when you got a nothing without having to steal.'

Debate on scrapping GST on kai heads to Parliament

Waititi says removing GST from kai would be the start of 'the radical shake-up'.

Property Insider: Kāinga Ora under fire; Chinese developers ‘shrivel’; why mega-projects are late and costly

Investigation findings on the state housing agency will be reported to ministers in March.

Chromebooks, shoes, uniforms and stationery - the overwhelming list returns

Between stationery and uniform costs, the start of the school year can be expensive.

Why the Kiingitanga national hui is an opportunity for unity

OPINION: Shane Te Pou says the hui represents an opportunity to change direction.

State tenants' soaring debt: one man owes $48k in rent

Total arrears have risen by 800 per cent since 2019 to $21 million.

'Final pay, don't delay!' Sacked ELE workers to Deloitte receivers in Queen St protest

Receivers 'well aware many ex-ELE workers experiencing financial and mental hardship'.

Minister demands action from Kāinga Ora over thousands of empty state homes

The public housing waitlist numbers more than 25,000.

'Could be a lonely death': Elderly stuck in unhygienic, unsafe conditions

The number of those suffering from poor living conditions could even be in the thousands.

Vermin and stench: Some NZers living in ‘homes unfit for human occupation’

Agencies described rundown homes cluttered with rubbish and infested with vermin.