About 5700 of the country's lowest-paid workers have won a landmark deal to pay them the minimum...

Despite the Pacific's reputation as a region of beaches and abundance, there is no place further from the internationally agreed poverty reduction targets.

Why is the idea of helping poor children so difficult to sell in a country with a supposed 'socialist streak'?

Children need time and space just to play - if not they'll end up psychologically damaged, says a British parenting writer.

The Independent's Alice Jones wonders why there are so few rules governing the distortion of images in the media.

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.

A new academic study shoots holes in the theory that you have to be an extravert to be a good leader.