Green MP Marama Davidson heads the cross-party Inquiry into Homelessness. She says homelessness has affected her own friends and family members.

COMMENT: There are two NZs on display and each is as un-Kiwi as the other.

COMMENT: Never mind arguing about whether child poverty exists: what are we going to do?

Disney-themed burkinis are making a splash in New Zealand, spurred by a woman's desire to help Muslim girls and women lead more active lives.

Refugees and migrants who have not eaten for a day or more bed down on blankets and scraps of cardboard in a small park near Lake Como in Italy.

Erin Gough responds to a column that expressed sympathy for a range of people whose worries were worse than a latte or the valuation of their house.

COMMENT: Down here at the southern end of the Earth, human rights abuses very often seem like the stuff of faraway lands.

The pay gap between men and women directors on New Zealand boards is closing.

A new study says Work and Income is pushing many beneficiaries into jobs that don't last - and even told a pregnant woman to start

COMMENT: There's been a lot discussed about all the problems P smoking brings, but what about the real cost to the owners of these properties?

Community housing providers say "key workers" such as nurses and teachers will still be locked out of housing close to their work.

Boys will be boys, we are told time and time again. Men will act as red-blooded men do. Because, if we are to follow these illogical

Maori tribal leaders will today sign a "covenant" with the nation's children, promising to respect them and make childhood a time of "joy and light".

COMMENT: If we do have to name this "new" ministry, one that builds on strengths, provides hope, and recognises resiliency must surely be a better choice.

Chivalry and decency are things of the past. These days it's all about boozing, bingeing, Big Macs at the theatre and Pokemon in church. Is it time we all learnt to behave, asks Robert Colvile.

Eight weeks after being awarded $15,518 in unpaid wages and reparation, sacked Otara tyre worker Patrick Toia is yet to receive a cent.

Toi Katipa never expected that he and his family would end up sleeping at the marae because they had become homeless.

Govt efforts to solve Auckland's housing crisis have been dealt a major blow by a weak response to a request for proposals to build 1000 new social homes.

COMMENT: We have the power to change our own lives and far better to live a life of hope and ambition than one of hopelessness and despair.

Asian families are more vulnerable than other Kiwis despite doing reasonably well financially, a new report says.

Desperate Aucklanders struggling to cope with the city's housing crisis have borrowed almost $20m from Work and Income for accommodation costs in the past year.

He walked the streets and slept where he could shelter. Public spaces were his home and lots of people looked at him - but few actually saw him.

COMMENT: If life is understood as a struggle among cost-benefit maximising individuals, the idea of a fair and harmonious society retreats.

Life after university can mean more wealth and health, but challenges remain.

Frustrated would-be first-home buyers will get a hand up as the Government moves to lift house price limits for KiwiSaver subsidies and low-deposit loans.

Analysis shows just 43 per cent of target-age Aucklanders could buy a $500,000 house under bank lending criteria.

COMMENT: Our country, so rich, green and clean-looking on the outside has entrenched difficult and dark issues to deal with on the inside.

The 30th anniversary of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill is being celebrated around the country today. Prominent Kiwis talk about what it means to them.

COMMENT: The Labour Party is introducing smart, innovative plans that are investing in our future.

Claire Trevett looks at the party's progress in the shaping of its plans to wrest power from the National Party at next year's general election.