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Time's 'Person of the Year'
Time magazine has named Pope Francis its person of the year, saying that in nine months in office the head of the Catholic Church had become a new voice of conscience.
Time magazine has named Pope Francis its person of the year, saying that in nine months in office the head of the Catholic Church had become a new voice of conscience.
Editorial: The Children's Commissioner has done well to raise independent funds for an annual report on child poverty, less well in publicising its first year's findings.
A new report on child poverty in New Zealand has been applauded by groups who have criticised the Government for failing to thoroughly monitor the issue itself.
Children's Commissioner Dr Russell Wills wants Kiwis to shift support from older, middle-income families to give more to our youngest and poorest children.
Children's Commissioner Dr Russell Wills has decided to publish his own annual stocktake of child poverty after the Govt spurned his call to publish official measures and targets.
A grim picture of hard times in the lucky country has emerged in a series of new reports on poverty, revealing a nation that welfare agencies say is splitting into two Australias.
Andrew Mexted-Bragg is trading his Audi for the bus and leaving a luxury inner-city apartment to share a flat with four other people.
Let's start with the numbers. They aren't mine. They come from a recently published Ministry of Social Development "factsheet".
Beggars who are considered intimidating or to be causing a nuisance will be banned from Auckland's streets under a bylaw passed by Auckland Council.
Squeegee bandits, those pesky people who clean car windscreens at busy intersections are alive and well on the streets of Auckland.
"Be content with what you have". That's just one of the slogans on a mural at the Cannons Creek Four Square.
Richard Balcombe-Langridge, like many people, quite likes Bentleys. He's a fan of the Rolls Royce, too.
We don't really see the street. Most of us don't even look. Kids look, as I'm about to find out, but we adults, most of us walk on by, our attention fixed on anything other than that dude over there
The idea that New Zealand has become one of the most unequal societies in the developed world is just not supported by the data, writes Brian Fallow.
Beau De Royce fears she could be forced to work on the streets if her sickness benefit is cut as part of a cull of welfare numbers.
When did this country become so mean? Did it begin in the 1980s, when greed became good and success became more about what you had than the sort of person you were?
About one in six Australians cannot afford to rent a home, with young families - especially single parents with children - among the worst affected, new reports show.
Making begging an offence at law counters many years of positive action by Auckland City Council and will serve only to criminalise beggars. writes Cathy Casey.
A crackdown on beggars in Auckland has the support of police, who believe it could reduce crime and anti-social behaviour.
A Whangarei grandmother has slammed Child, Youth and Family (CYF) for dumping her two young nephews at her doorstep without providing enough money to look after them.
The number of international child abduction cases before New Zealand courts is soaring, as the cost of court action forces desperate parents to go on the run.