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'A national shame': Lax enforcement over child support arrears slammed
A Christchurch mother has slammed a lack of enforcement over child support arrears.
'Heartbreaking': Patients queue in cold from 6am to see doctor
Patients said they sometimes waited five hours to see a doctor.
Whānau get warm, dry, secure homes with Whangārei charity development
The 22-home development is Habitat for Humanity's largest in New Zealand.
Govt opponents slam benefit sanction traffic light system
PM says there'll be “no more excuses” for beneficiaries not knowing their obligations.
Editorial: Houdini couldn't make that many families disappear from the emergency housing list
OPINION: The Govt says there are 32% less households living in motels.
Sasha Borissenko: Truancy and the law – crisis or smokescreen?
OPINION: The focus should be on addressing the chronically absent rate.
'It’s really tough for our whānau': Schools requesting charity aid as cost of living bites
Schools are doing their bit to help while families struggle to afford the basics.
More and more students leaving school before turning 17
School-leaver data is considered more robust – has the slide in education continued?
‘We can’t forget about them’: Record KidsCan waitlist to support kids as cost of living bites
Not just those in economically-deprived areas needing help, middle-income struggling too.
Māori women at risk of abuse caused by poor housing and poverty
A new report links sexual and family violence to poor housing and poverty.
Simon Wilson: Tracing the links from abuse in care to crime on Queen St
OPINION: The links between violence in public and private and how the state acts.
Adopt a Granny programme to help elderly with extra food and social support
The initiative started in response to some elderly going without food.
So much, so fast, all at once: Govt moves at breathtaking pace on housing market
Massive reforms are under way: what do people think, what's the reaction, what effect?
Grandson's 'teeth are chattering' in cold house as grandma has to choose between food or power
The woman chooses a warm meal over a warm house and says she can never have both.
Editorial: The familiar fall of SPQR is a lesson
OPINION: SPQR was felled by forces that seem all too familiar to the hospitality industry.
Kāinga Ora evictions to rise in crackdown on unruly tenants
The Housing Minister expects the housing agency to evict an increasing number of people.
'It transformed our winter': How a new power company is changing lives
A warm-hearted power company uses surplus from regular customers to help others.
Letters: Power companies switch common decency for profit
OPINION: 'Is this a society that we can be proud of?'
'Penalty for being poor': Advocates put heat on power firms to scrap disconnection fees
Advocates say disconnection from essential services as a way of debt collection is unjust.
Opinion: Are we becoming desensitised to the cost-of-living crisis?
OPINION: 'The reality is we’re seeing more widespread vulnerability.'
Young people living in hardship resort to theft to feed siblings, charity hears
Up to 144,000 children live in hardship across New Zealand.
Filipina woman escapes poverty through child sponsorship
Keewani Cook lost three of her siblings because her family could not afford healthcare.
Letters: David Seymour out of his depth on school lunch debate
OPINION: Also in today's letters – rubbish council comms; that NZDF plane versus ferries.
The $2b social housing cliff no one is talking about
The social housing sector is blighted by a fiscal cliff that creates haves and have-nots.
Cameron Bagrie: Major changes means it's time to slay dragons
OPINION: The scale of a monstrous problem has become clearer of late.
More than 40 Auckland boarding houses operating illegally
Issues include gang-affiliated guests, fire safety breaches, and challenging owners.
'Take back Fenton St': New homeless motel plan revealed
Four motels used for emergency housing are being cut.
'Happens in mob movies': Juror given $120,000 cash bag in multi-million dollar fraud case
Seven people were charged with stealing $40 million from a programme for hungry kids.
Editorial: A strategic move in face of rising Chinese influence
OPINION: It's allegedly backed by a staggering $650m in funds from Australia's Government.
Simon Wilson: The Budget promises that are destroying us
OPINION: Sugar hits for floating voters are holding back almost all meaningful progress.
'Don't call police or we'll come back': Gangsters attack man in violent home invasion
Police later seized Daniel Natua's gang patch and gun cache after raiding his home.
Vincent Ashworth made Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to agriculture
Ashworth worked to improve farming practices in Ethiopia and Afghanistan.
Watch: Jack Tame v Nicola Willis in heated post-Budget debate on Q+A
Willis was probed over why the Nats didn't campaign on how many families were worse off.