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![<i>John Armstrong:</i> At last, Key's Govt shows some spine](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=791)
<i>John Armstrong:</i> At last, Key's Govt shows some spine
John Armstrong writes that the backbone displayed by Brownlee and Bennett will please the National traditionalists, but we'll have to watch it bend again in election year.
![Some welfare reforms do breach rights, says Bennett](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=791)
Some welfare reforms do breach rights, says Bennett
Paula Bennett admits that part of her welfare reforms breach the Bill of Rights Act but says it would not bother most people.
![Attorney-General: Welfare changes in breach](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=791)
Attorney-General: Welfare changes in breach
Work testing sole parents on the DPB is an unjustifiable breach of human rights, Attorney-General Chris Finlayson told Parliament today.
![Welfare reforms to add pressure to unwilling workers](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=791)
Welfare reforms to add pressure to unwilling workers
Long-term unemployed, sickness beneficiaries and single mothers on the DPB with children over six are about to come under extra scrutiny under new Govt reforms.
![Minimum wage - the $15 question](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=791)
Minimum wage - the $15 question
More than 150,000 people have petitioned to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, but Act says $12.75 is already too much. Simon Collins investigates.
![Fraudster who stole babies' identities loses appeal](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=791)
Fraudster who stole babies' identities loses appeal
A man who stole the identities of dead infants to commit benefit fraud gave himself up after 16 years on the run.
![Tough welfare laws loom this year](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=791)
Tough welfare laws loom this year
New laws to make sole parents look for work after their youngest children turn 6 will be phased in over several years, the Govt says.
![Family still on struggle street after Key leaves](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=791)
Family still on struggle street after Key leaves
The mother of the 12-year-old girl John Key took to Waitangi three years ago says she feels let down by the Prime Minister.