Welfare system needs radical shake up
OPINION: One of the most urgent tasks facing the new Government is welfare reform.
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Sole mothers should not be penalised for failing to name their baby's father.
Beneficiary's house demolished within days of her leaving
Glen Innes tenant's former home has been reduced to a pile of rubble.
Mother: I took on my son's bullies
One mother tells her story of the fight to protect her son.
Is your phone your safety net?
OPINION: Reliance on devices is responsible for a shift in how we regulate our emotions.
A future of empty nests
The childless couple is predicted to be the fastest growing family type
Did beneficiary's bank loans 'absolve' state responsibility?
The Government says a beneficiary with bank loans was not entitled to welfare payments.
Portraits of homelessness raise $80,000
Portraits of homelessness raise $80,000 for those still living on the streets
After 25 years on streets 'I got a key, a key to a door'
After 25 years on and off the streets Aroha is happy to have her own key to her own house.
Marvelly: Sexual harassment an epidemic
OPINION: We've come too far to allow the predators to retain their power.
End in sight for Glen Innes beneficiary's housing battle
Happy end in sight for Glen Innes beneficiary's housing battle
Stuart Middleton: NEETs curse must be tackled
COMMENT: The number of people not in employment education or training is alarmingly high.
Quarter of kids in low decile schools need food support
Quarter of kids in lower decile schools don't have enough to eat.
Niki Bezzant: Food a basic human right
COMMENT: Food security is closely linked with inequality.
The lethal truth about online abuse
OPINION: Disagree by all means, but nasty personal attacks are out of line.
Funding boost to house the city's homeless
$10m grant to help provide new homes for Auckland city's homeless.
Meet Auckland's Street Choir
Ahead of World Homeless Day tomorrow we meet the Auckland Street Choir.
Does mixing more really tackle prejudice?
Does mixing more help address prejudice? That depends on societal equality, study finds.
Streetlife: Incredible portraits of homeless
Walking the streets with an iPhone to capture the face of the homeless.
Librarian baulks at housing homeless during the day
A Christchurch librarian is not keen to see an influx of homeless in libraries.
House sitters beat the housing crisis
There is a way for those without a home to have a place to lay their heads.
Q&A: Predator-free NZ's tricky ethical issues
How to tackle the touchy issues that the PFNZ mission throws up? A new panel will try.
Living wage policies show National's true face
COMMENT: National has tried to water down a mean streak about social issues.
Paul Little: Vote for the NZ you want
OPINION: We want to live in a society where no child arrives in a world of uncertainty.
Girls as young as 12 caught in sex trafficking web in NZ
Young girls are falling prey to traffickers trapping them in a seedy underbelly.
Deborah Hill Cone: The true secret to wealth
COMMENT: I get the feeling it is increasingly awkward being seen to be rich these days.
Wards of the state turn to streets to make ends meet
Authors' look at struggle finds sisters separated at birth turned to the streets.
Struggling teen couple find a home
Teen couple have been given a chance and a house by a young Aucklander.
Could Rotorua end up with four MPs?
If the latest Reid Research poll bears out, Rotorua could have four MPs after the election
Editorial: Child poverty targets too easy
EDITORIAL: Both main parties have put a figure on poverty reduction, but will it help?
Wait-list growing for a roof overhead
What are parties promising on social housing?
'End toxic Winz culture' - beneficiaries
Beneficiaries call for higher benefits and an end to Work and Income's "toxic culture".