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$100m deal ends pay 'struggle' for all-night disability workers
About 5700 of the country's lowest-paid workers have won a landmark deal to pay them the minimum...
Barry Coates: Our neighbours need help with tackling poverty
Despite the Pacific's reputation as a region of beaches and abundance, there is no place further from the internationally agreed poverty reduction targets.
Tapu Misa: Cuts hurt kids instead of making parents work
Why is the idea of helping poor children so difficult to sell in a country with a supposed 'socialist streak'?
Top tips to avoid 'family fatigue'
Children need time and space just to play - if not they'll end up psychologically damaged, says a British parenting writer.
Beware the treachery of the cynically altered image
The Independent's Alice Jones wonders why there are so few rules governing the distortion of images in the media.
Fran O'Sullivan: Look out for the kids when you swing that axe, Mr Key
NZ should hope John Key shows some common sense - tempered with heart - when he goes about trying to reduce from 328,000 the number of Kiwis on solo parent, sickness and invalid benefits, writes Fran O'Sullivan.