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Dole-funded jaunt leads to charges
Criminal charges have been laid against an unemployed man who travelled the world for two years courtesy of the taxpayer. Peter Freedom left for Australia in 2009 but his benefit payments were not stopped until last January.
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Brian Fallow: Inflation threatens to bite into recovery
Households at risk of slow wage growth combined with rising costs.
![Youth in holding pattern as recession bites north](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Youth in holding pattern as recession bites north
The impacts of the global financial crisis hit are ingrained in our communities.
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Mental health boost aims to cut welfare rolls
Health training funds are being redirected into mental health.
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$42m earmarked for Canterbury trades training
Next week's budget will provide up to $42 million for trades training for Canterbury to meet labour demand.
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Reports of child abuse escalate in Central North Island
Child abuse complaints have more than tripled in Rotorua, Whakatane and Taupo in the past five years.
![Christchurch earthquake: Hard times on Struggle Street](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
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.
![Quake-support packages needed for more than 20,000](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Quake-support packages needed for more than 20,000
Applications for financial support following last week's deadly Christchurch quake are flooding in.
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Christchurch earthquake: Hundreds flood welfare centres
Hundreds of people displaced by Tuesday's earthquake have set up camp at Christchurch welfare centres and more are flooding in.
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Bombshell on way for beneficiaries
About 300,000 welfare beneficiaries who are judged capable of work will face a day of reckoning tomorrow with the release of a report.
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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.