Inequality

Nearly 3000 requests for emergency housing were rejected by the government in 2020 - a figure the opposition National Party says represents a genuine crisis.

Social Development Minister Carmel… Audio

The Football Ferns kneeled before their opening match of the Tokyo Olympics against Australia last night - a gesture known as a call for racial equality in sport.

One of the first events of the… Audio

As the formal government apology for the Dawn Raids nears, women members of the Polynesian Panthers are reflecting on their part in the fight.

The social justice group was set up in 1971 to target… Audio

More than 250 sailors will be allowed off a Royal Canadian Navy frigate without having to go through managed isolation.

The HMCS Calgary will visit Auckland early next month - the first visit by a… Audio

A life of abuse from an early age has been outlined to the inquiry into abuse in care by a woman of Tongan and Palagi descent.

The Royal Commission is focusing on the historical abuse in care of… Audio

People who regularly walk down one stretch of Christchurch's central city may get the feeling that they are always hearing one particular very catchy Rick Astley song blasting out on to the footpath.

The dawn raids of the 1970s still haunt Pacific island people to this day.

Tigilau Ness, a New Zealand born Niuean, is an activist with Polynesian Panthers.

He's told the inquiry into abuse in care… Audio

The Productivity Commission wants to hear from the public about how everyone in New Zealand can get a fair chance at life.

The independent crown entity wants to launch an inquiry into why some people… Audio

After more than year of waiting for a Ministry of Social Development review, a woman who was unfairly sanctioned for failing to name her child's father has been repaid.

Under the sanction, many women… Video, Audio

An indigenous woman says her experience in the forced residential school system for indigenous people in Canada made her ashamed to be brown.

Geraldine Shingoose says she has cried every day since… Audio

The government's counting another drop in unemployment numbers as a win - but others say they don't paint the whole picture.

Over the past three months, more than 31,000 people found jobs and got off… Audio

Thousands of women who had their benefits docked are still waiting for their cases to be reviewed more than two years after the Minister ordered MSD to take a second look.

The women had up to $28 a… Video, Audio

A now defunct Auckland company which received nearly $15 million to house the homeless now owes the government tens of thousands of dollars in wage subsidies and tax payments.

Silverfern Property… Audio

Nurses have more industrial action planned as frustration with shortages and pay boil over - what's behind the anger?  Audio

The Covid-19 vaccine rollout for Canterbury is under close scrutiny after the District Health Board admitted it won't be getting started on group four until mid-September.

It was already well behind… Audio

Advocacy group Auckland Action Against Poverty (AAAP) has 38 cases on its books, with women appealing past MSD sanctions, in the hope of getting years of deductions repaid.

One of those women has… Video, Audio

Welfare advocates say thousands of women who had benefits docked unfairly because they could not or would not name their child's father could be entitled to significant lump sum refunds.

But the… Video, Audio

Thirty thousand nurses in the country's public hospitals strike again over a lack of action on pay and conditions.

They walked off the wards in hospitals in June when employment talks with their… Audio