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Pair face machete child abuse charges
A couple is facing serious child abuse charges, including allegations of strangling and assaulting a boy with a machete.
Children's new advocate has proud record of cutting abuse
Brains behind successful Hawkes Bay scheme given chance to put ideas into practice nationwide.
Govt to spend $55m on youth jobs
A new Govt package will give subsidies to employers who agree to train a young person and give them a permanent job.
Move cuts help to anti-violence groups
Women's refuges say some women fleeing from violence may no longer be able to get...
Outrage as Malaysia sends 'effeminate' boys to anti-gay camp
The Malaysian authorities are at the centre of an increasingly heated row after it emerged that 66 Muslim boys identified by teachers as "effeminate" had been dispatched to a special camp to discourage them from becoming gay.
<em>Nick Smith: </em>Porn? No, romance is the real risk
The recent flurry of gosh-how-shocking stories about female consumption of pornography is emblematic.
Family Court shake-up 'frightening'
A shake-up of the Family Court could end counselling and mediation services...
Dita De Boni: A real-life princess
What if your daughter squanders her considerable intelligence on meaningless jobs and other fripperies, waiting for her prince to come?
Tapu Misa: Govt foolish to sniff around school nursing for savings
Think of preventive health care as the condom that most governments don't want to wear.
Past still present for African Americans
When Confederate forces fired the first shots at Fort Sumter on April 12, 150 years ago, triggering the American Civil War, almost four million African Americans were slaves.