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Family violence networks scramble to fight cash cuts
The Government's "it's not okay" campaign may be axed to free up funding for the new Whanau Ora programme.
Refugees determined to return to quake-hit Christchurch
Hundreds of refugees who fled their wartorn countries only to be caught up in the Christchurch earthquake are determined to return to Canterbury.
Fashion and fascism
John Galliano's recent comments have put the spotlight on the links between designers and government.
Workers' mental injuries may be covered - ACC
Workers caught up in last month's Christchurch earthquake may be eligible for emotional trauma compensation from ACC even if they weren't physically hurt.
Bail for accused looter with autism
Police have relented and allowed bail for a young man with autism who became "the face of looting" in the days after the February 22 quake.
Inflated to bursting point
Consumer prices have jumped further since the most recent official statistics were published in January, the Herald on Sunday finds.
Christchurch earthquake: Hard times on Struggle Street
Surrounded by her children in the garage of their Hampshire St home in the Christchurch suburb of Aranui, Mafutaga Manuleleua still feels unloved.
DHB head invokes Katrina to defend evacuating elderly
Canterbury DHB chief executive David Meates has invoked memories of Hurricane Katrina to justify evacuating hundreds of elderly out of the Christchurch in the wake of last week's earthquake.
How repetition helps a child's vocabulary
It may be boring for parents - but reading the same book over and over again to children is the best way to develop their vocabulary.
After 120 knockbacks, where are the jobs?
Peter Milne has one question for a government advisory group that wants more beneficiaries to have to look for work: Where are the jobs?
Govt rules out cutting the dole
The Government won't consider reductions to main benefit levels including the sickness, invalid's, unemployment and domestic purposes benefits as part of any welfare overhaul recommended by the Welfare Working Group tomorrow.
Ecstasy does not damage brain, robust study says
Previous drug surveys exaggerated, claims professor who selected subjects carefully
Girl bully to be taken out of school by mum
One of the girls who allegedly attacked a fellow student at Morrinsville College last week is to be pulled out of school voluntarily by her mother.
GPs develop plan to get invalids off benefit
A consortium of North Shore doctors has a radical proposal to use health professionals to help sickness and invalid beneficiaries back to work.
Key 'disconnected' from average Kiwis - homeless coalition
John Key has been accused of being disconnected after saying that beneficiaries who resort to food banks do so out of their own "poor choices".
Food parcel families made poor choices, says Key
John Key says beneficiaries who resort to food banks do so out of their own "poor choices" rather than because they cannot afford food.