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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.
One suburb - two separate worlds
Meadowlands, a shopping centre in one of the most Chinese parts of Auckland, tells a story of how NZ is...
A criminal by association
The Crimes Amendment Bill will only criminalise people who are already on the margins of society, says Dita De Boni.
NZ's stillbirth rate among highest
An expert says many more babies would survive if the country quit smoking and reduced its obesity.
'We're moving on' - MPs accept O'Connor's apology
One Labour MP said Damien O'Connors "gaggle of gays" comment offended him, but accepted an apology.
'Derision of gays made me suicidal'
The 17-yr-old son of a former Cabinet minister says he struggled as a closet homosexual boarder at King's College.
Boarding house horrors
Children are living in tiny, damp and sometimes squalid boarding houses, while Housing NZ staff are discouraging people who are seeking help from formally registering their need, saying they have no business interfering.